Backyard Baseball '01

Relive the second baseball game in the Backyard Sports franchise!

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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

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    Brandon Scott

    All I can say is this game is amazing. Just the same as when I was a kid.

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    Sam Ashburner

    Great port of the original 2001 game. It could definitely use some additional modern upgrades (speed, responsiveness) but it's still a lot of fun. Runs well for me and I haven't experienced many crashes at all. You can play offline which is a bonus.

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    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.

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    Buddy Bloomingale

    it sucks

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    Fernando Nuño

    Can't play anymore due to"SCUMMERROR 3,2101 (out of array pointers)" error message that causes the game to crash. Played the entire season without issue and just started the World Series when the game crashed. Phenomenal game, though! Love the mobile experience and it's so like the original. Spent hours playing. Can't wait to continue playing once the bug is fixed! Edit: Bug has been fixed!!!!

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    Mark Kolecka

    Only thing missing is multiplayer.

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    Adam Munro

    torture

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    Rachel Kaylor

    amazing but needs the OG's back in

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    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.

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    Don Anglin

    this was such a horrible game, and I waited too long to get my refund... so do not buy this game!!!! The game play is so slow, I had to play one game in 2 days. The options for all the sounds didn't work at all, i.e. when you turn off the background sounds, they don't turn off. To include on that, they have 2 chants in 3 different voices that constantly play! wanna batter wanna pitcher.... cmon devs.... you made us pay for this game and we all know there is better FREE GAMES than this.

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    Cat Attack

    Loved the old fame on PC, great to see a port

Contacts

Playground Productions LLC

https://backyardsports.com/