Backyard Baseball

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Backyard Baseball

Developer(s)	Humongous Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Atari
Release date(s)	1997
Genre(s)	Sports
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone (E)
Platform(s)	Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Windows

Backyard Baseball is a series of video games for the Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, GameCube and the PC. Currently all the games in the series have been developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari. It is one of six Backyard Sports games.

The original game consisted of 30 neighborhood kids. But over the years, the idea of "Pro players as kids" became popular, and the original stats/look of the players changed.

Managers can not only create players, but they can choose from among a roster of characters to form teams. In the latest version of the game, a player could play an exhibition game or a 16 or 32 game season (used to be 14), which is followed by the "BBL playoffs," which contains both the AL and NL divisional series, the AL and NL championship series and finally the "Backyard Baseball World Series". The game includes many modes, and they are Single Game, Batting Practice, Spectator, and Season Game.

Backyard Baseball attempts to recreate the experience of playing baseball as children.

However, the most recent release, Backyard Baseball 2007, featuring Albert Pujols, has been pushed back to fix out some bugs in the game.