Backyard Baseball '01

Backyard Baseball '01 is a baseball game where you build a team of Backyard kids and MLB legends, customize its uniforms and play to win the Championship. You can choose a quick pick-up game, a single game or a full season, with three difficulty modes: Easy Mode, Medium Mode and Hard Mode.

Teams and players

You can choose from 30 child athletes and 28 legendary pros, including Pablo Sanchez. The MLB players include Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Cal Ripken Jr., Sammy Sosa, Mike Piazza, Randy Johnson, Nomar Garciaparra, Jeff Bagwell, Jason Giambi, Chipper Jones, Jeromy Burnitz, Mark McGwire, Shawn Green, Vladimir Guerrero, Kenny Lofton, Jason Kendall, Barry Larkin, Marty Cordova, Mo Vaughn, Raul Mondesi, Curt Schilling, Alex Gonzalez, Juan Gonzalez, Larry Walker, Carlos Beltran, Tony Gwynn, Ivan Rodriguez and Jose Canseco. Games feature MLB team marks, eight classic ballparks, hilarious bloopers, and commentary from Sunny Day and Vinnie.

Game modes

• Random Pick-up: The computer selects a random team for you and itself, and the game starts immediately.
• Single Game: Take turns with the computer choosing players from a random pool of characters.
• Season: Choose a home field, create a team and manage it through a 14-game series against computer-generated teams. The best two teams advance to the BBL playoffs, a best-of-three series. Further wins lead to the Super Entire Nation Tournament and the Ultra Grand Championship of the Universe Series.

Practice and power-ups

You can practice batting against Mr. Clanky to learn when to click to hit the ball. The game also includes nine pitching power-ups and four batting power-ups.