In Backyard Baseball 2001, the Backyard kids are joined by 31 MLB pro players, many of which were all-stars during the 1999 Major League Baseball All Star Game. The game has also been noted for its diversity (gender, race, disability, etc.) of characters, both in ratio of white to non-white and male to female, as well as skill level and the distribution of the best characters. Pablo Sanchez, one of the fictional playable characters in the game, has been regarded as one of the strongest athletes in video game history. In 2013, The Evergreen Group acquired the intellectual property from Atari. This game has various playable modes, they include: Single Game, Batting Practice, Spectator, and Season Game. There have been several color commentators: Vinnie the Gooch (from the original to 2003 and Backyard Sports Baseball 2015 voiced by Dolores Rogers and Lani Minella), Abner Dubbleplay (from the Gamecube version to the GBA Backyard Baseball 2006 voiced by Adam Watson) and Jack Fouler (in Backyard Sports Baseball 09 and 10). The play-by-play commentator in most editions is Sunny Day (voiced by Jen Taylor, Lani Minella and Samantha Kelly). In the different installments, one could choose to play a one-off exhibition game or a seasonal league, followed by the "Backyard Baseball League" playoffs, which contains the American League and National League divisional series, the AL and NL championship series and finally the "Backyard Baseball World Series". In Backyard Baseball, players take a managerial role by creating a team of different players to compete against opponents. As the game progresses, there are some professionals that become available or "unlockable" including Randy Johnson, Derek Jeter, and Mike Piazza. Some of the professional players that were available included Chipper Jones, Frank Thomas, Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Soriano, Ichiro Suzuki, Sammy Sosa, Jim Thome, Albert Pujols, Nomar Garciaparra, Ken Griffey Jr., and Barry Bonds. Over the years, the idea of "Pro players as kids" became popular, and the original statistics and looks of the players changed. The original game consisted of 30 neighborhood kids from which the player must build a team.
Some of the game titles that were created include Backyard Baseball, Backyard Baseball 2001-2010, and Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers. There have been eleven different versions of the game since 1997.
It is part of the Backyard Sports series. Later games were featured on Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Wii, and iOS. It was first released in October 1997 for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Wii, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Xbox 360, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, Macintoshīackyard Baseball is a series of baseball video games for children which was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari.
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