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Starting from Backyard Baseball 2001, the power ups were awarded after a hit off a 'crazy pitch' and when the player turned a double play or triple play on defense. In the original Backyard Baseball, these batting power-ups appeared when the player got a hit when the computer used a 'crazy pitch' (see below). Sometimes accompanying the four standard batting modes (Power, Line Drive, Grounder and Bunt), some beneficial power-ups appear. Several of these players would be featured in multiple releases including Nomar Garciaparra, Derek Jeter, and Alex Rodriguez. Eventual Hall of Fame players featured include Barry Larkin, Vladimir Guerrero, Jeff Bagwell, Larry Walker, Chipper Jones, Derek Jeter, Mike Piazza, Tony Gwynn, Ken Griffey Jr., Cal Ripken Jr., Ivan Rodriguez, and Randy Johnson, who are all playable characters to choose from.

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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) 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 the strongest character 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.

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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.

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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, MacintoshД«ackyard Baseball is a series of baseball video games for children which was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari.

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