Schroeder (Peanuts) Schroeder (Peanuts) Schroeder is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip "Peanuts", created by Charles M. Schulz. He is distinguished by his precocious skill at playing the toy piano, as well as by his love of classical music and the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in particular. Schroeder is also the catcher on Charlie Brown's baseball team, though he is always seen walking back to the pitcher's mound with the baseball, never throwing it—admitting in one strip he did not want the other team to discover his lack of ability. He is also the object of the unrequited infatuation of
Peanuts "Peanuts" television specials the fourth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time. A computer-animated feature film based on the strip, "The Peanuts Movie", was released in 2015. "Peanuts" had its origin in "Li'l Folks", a weekly panel comic that appeared in Schulz's hometown paper, the "St. Paul Pioneer Press", from 1947 to 1950. He first used the name "Charlie Brown" for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like the early 1950s version of Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold