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STEP UP TO THE PLATE Relive the second baseball game in the Backyard Sports franchise, now enhanced to run on Android devices. Whether you're picking your dream team, playing a pick-up game, or diving into a full season, step up to the plate and experience the game that made baseball fun for everyone! Backyard Baseball ‘01 teams up the Backyard kids with Backyardified professional legends. Create your own Backyard team, customize your uniforms, and strategize to win the Championship. Play a single pick-up game or play through an entire season. Backyard Baseball ‘01 features intuitive controls for all ages! SWING BACK INTO BASEBALL Enjoy baseball like it’s 2001! - 30 Charming Backyard kids - Legendary Professional Players - Hilarious Bloopers - 8 Classic Ballparks - 9 Pitching Power-ups and 4 batting Power-ups - Lively commentary from Sunny Day and Vinnie To get into the swing of things, choose a batter and face Mr. Clanky for some batting practice. This is where you’ll learn just when to click to make your chosen batter hit the ball! THE GOAT RETURNS Play with the legend himself, Pablo Sanchez. Build a roster from a cast of 30 hilarious child athletes and 28 legendary pros that made Backyard Baseball ‘01 a sports classic. Returning 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. Game Modes include: - Choose from three modes of play (Easy Mode, Medium Mode, Hard Mode) - Random Pick-up: A quick way to jump right in! The computer chooses a random team for you and itself, and the game starts immediately. - Single Game: You take turns with the computer, choosing players from a random pool of characters. - Season: You pick your home field, create a team, and manage the team through a 14-game series. The opposing teams are computer-generated. At the end of the season, the best two teams advance to the BBL playoffs (best of 3). If you keep winning, you’ll compete in the Super Entire Nation Tournament and Ultra Grand Championship of the Universe Series! ADDITIONAL INFORMATION At our core, we are fans first – not just of video games, but of the Backyard Sports franchise. Fans have asked for accessible and legal ways to play their original Backyard titles for years, and we are excited to deliver. Without having access to the source code, there are hard limitations on the experience we can create. As an example, we can’t use the original 32-bit code to support modern macOS, as even with an incredibly clever wrapper, macOS can’t execute the binaries.
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Genre
Sports
Rating
PEGI 3
Release
Jul 8, 2025
Last Update
Add Android 15 Support<br>Optimizations and Compatibility improvements<br>Fixed SDL_BlitSurface crash issue
Reviews
Gabriel Olague
lots of bugs. middle of the season and all of the season stats I had disappeared. balls being thrown way outside being called strikes. power hitters getting a well timed hit only for it to be an infield pop fly. same thing with the aluminum power bat, timing was perfect and it didn't even leave the infield. if they can patch everything I'll gladly give it 5 later but just too buggy at the moment
Matt Carson
This is... AWESOME!!!!! I have backyard football too and it is great!!! And, I can't wait for another backyard game by playground productions to come out on mobile device soon... big fan!!!
Ryan Kraemer
They took the best hitters out of the game. No Griffey Jr and no Bonds!! It's 2001 the expos exist but the indians don't?!
Buddy Bloomingale
it sucks
Ben Hufford
Fun game, but lately I keep getting a scumerror message after a playoff game that shuts down the app and forces me to replay the final out over and over again.
Adam Munro
torture
skid
Runs very well and no bugs!
Rachel Kaylor
amazing but needs the OG's back in
Mills Lane
game crashes sometimes, corrupting the current game you've been playing as well, so it reverts back to the last finished game. pretty annoying. I average about 1 crash per game I would say.
James McKone
its great fun and funny! (:
Brandon Scott
All I can say is this game is amazing. Just the same as when I was a kid.