In 2013, The Evergreen Group acquired the intellectual property from Atari.
This game has various playable modes and they include: Single Game, Batting Practice, Spectator, and Season Game.
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. Players do move differently on different fields, slower on sand and faster on turf.Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Wii, Windows, iOS, Xbox 360, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Macintoshīackyard Baseball is a series of baseball video games for children which was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari. The game features pretty simple menus, baseball cards of all the players, rosters and schedules, a system of "Good & Bad Days" that alter players' stats (one person may not like Tuesdays, or be much better when a particular person is on the other team, etc). And, as with Backyard Sports titles, there are power-ups: pitches like the Big Freeze, Corkscrew, or Elevator.
There's even batting practice, from Tee-ball to Hard difficulties, and a Spectator mode to let two teams duke it out while you watch. Play a single game, or an entire season (winning pennants and trophies and maybe getting into the Hall of Fame), or even online against other BB2001 players. Pick a Backyard Sports team or create your own, or pick from 30 licensed MLB teams (with uniforms and logos). As coach, you pick from either the 30 fictitious Backyard Kits, 31 real major league players portrayed as kids, or both.
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