(Typical baseball game music plays. Da, da, da, da, da, da... Charge kind of thing.)

CHARLIE BROWN:
 All right, gang. I want this game to be our biggest and best game of the season, and I want everyone out there playing with everything he's got...

LUCY:
Charlie Brown, I thought up some new strategy for you. Why don't you tell the other team that we're going to play them at a certain place, only it isn't the real place, and then when they don't show up, we'll win by forfeit. Isn't that good strategy? I don't understand these managers who don't want to use good strategy.

CHARLIE BROWN:
 The thing we have to remember is spirit and teamwork. If we all really grit our teeth and bear down

SCHROEDER:
That other team was trash talkin' us Charlie Brown. I got even with them though. I said you think your so great? Mozart was writing symphonies when he was your age. That really shut 'em up.

CHARLIE BROWN:
I bet it did. If we really grit our teeth and bear down I'm sure we could finish the season...

LINUS:
Perhaps you shouldn't be a playing manager Charlie Brown. Perhaps you should be a bench manager.

SALLY:
That's a good idea. You'd be a great bench manager big brother. You could say "Bench do this" or "Bench do that." You could even be in charge of where we put the bench. When we get to the playing field. you could say, "Let's put the bench here" or "Let's put the bench there."

CHARLIE BROWN:
I can't stand it!

LUCY:
What's the point of our playing when we know we're going top lose? If there was even a million-to-one chance we might win, it would make some sense.

CHARLIE BROWN:
Well, there may not be a million -to-one chance, but I'm sure there's at least a billion-to-one chance.

SONG: TEAM

CHARLIE BROWN:
Come on, gimme a "T."

ALL:
"T"

CHARLIE BROWN:
Gimme an "E"

ALL:
"E"

CHARLIE BROWN:
Gimme an "A"

ALL:
"A"

CHARLIE BROWN:
Gimme a "M"

ALL:
"M"

CHARLIE BROWN:
What's that spell?

ALL:
Team!

THERE IS NO TEAM LIKE THE BEST TEAM,
WHICH IS OUR TEAM RIGHT HERE.
WE WILL SHOW YOU WE'RE THE BEST TEAM
IN THE VERY LITTLE LEAGUE THIS YEAR.
AND IN NO TIME WE'LL BE BIG TIME,
WITH THE BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL STARS,
FOR ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS WIN JUST ONE MORE GAME
AND THE CHAMPIONSHIP IS OURS.

CHARLIE BROWN:
Dear Pen Pal,
YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TODAY AT THE
BASEBALL GAME
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED TODAY AT THE
BASEBALL GAME
I WAS THE MANAGER,
SCHROEDER WAS CATCHER,
AND ALL OF THE TEAM WAS THE SAME
AS ALWAYS
BUT SOMEHOW OR OTHER DISASTER STRUCK
AT THE BASEBALL GAME.

Huddle up!

ALL:
Break!!

(Then some ad libbing insults to the other team.)

LUCY:
I got it!

LINUS:
I got it!

SCHROEDER:
I got it!

SNOOPY:
Woof woof woof (which sounds like I got it)!

SALLY:
AAHHH (she screams)

LUCY: (to Charlie Brown)
I thought you had it!

CHARLIE BROWN:
THREE BALLS, TWO STRIKES, THE BASES WERE LOADED
WITH TWO MEN OUT.
I PITCHED MY CURVE, BUT SOMEHOW HE HIT IT
A GOOD STRONG CLOUT.
"LUCY," I HOLLERED, "IT'S COMIN' RIGHT TO YA."
SHE CAUGHT IT AS EASY AS PIE -- THEN DROPPED IT
I DON'T THINK IT'S GOOD FOR A TEAM'S MORALE
TO SEE THEIR MANAGER CRY.
SNOOPY HELPED OUT BY BITING A RUNNER
AND CATCHING THE BALL IN HIS TEETH.
LINUS CAUGHT FLIES FROM A THIRD-STORY WINDOW
BY HOLDING HIS BLANKET BENEATH.
YES, WE HAD FORTITUDE,
NO ONE COULD ARGUE WITH THAT.
AND ONE RUN WOULD WIN US THE GAME AS I CAME UP TO BAT.

OTHERS:
GO CHARLIE BROWN, CHARLIE BROWN, CHARLIE BROWN

LUCY:
All right, Charlie Brown, we're all behind you -- sort of. I mean this man can't pitch, he pitches like my grandmother, Charlie Brown! Now, all you have to do bear down -- just bear down. Listen, when you get to first, watch me for my signal -- got it Flash?

OTHERS (quietly in the background):
THERE IS NOT TEAM LIKE THE BEST TEAM,
WHICH IS OUR TEAM RIGHT HERE.
WE WILL SHOW YOU WE'RE THE BEST TEAM
IN THE VERY LITTLE LEAGUE THIS YEAR.
AND IN NO TIME WE'LL BE BIG TIME,
WITH THE BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL STARS,

ALL:
FOR ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS WIN JUST ONE MORE GAME.

LUCY:
And the championship is ours!

OTHERS: (whispering)
Ours, Ours, Ours.

CHARLIE BROWN:
TWO MEN WERE ON WITH TWO OUTS
AND ME WITH ONE STRIKE TO GO.

OTHERS (whispering):
One strike... One strike...

CHARLIE BROWN:
THEN I SAW HER,
THIS CUTE LITTLE REDHEADED GIRL I KNOW.
FIRMLY I VOWED I WOULD WIN IT FOR HER
AND I SHOULDERED THE BAT AND I SWUNG. . .

ALL:
Awwwww!

CHARLIE BROWN:
DEAR PEN PAL,
I'M TOLD WHERE YOU LIVE IS REALLY QUITE FAR.
WOULD YOU PLEASE SEND DIRECTIONS
ON HOW I CAN GET WHERE YOU ARE?
YOUR FRIEND,
CHARLIE BROWN.