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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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Release
Jul 8, 2025
Last Updates
Add Android 15 Support Optimizations and Compatibility improvements Fixed SDL_BlitSurface crash issue
Rating
PEGI 3
Genre
Sports
Reviews
This is a great game, even better than the original Backyard Baseball. However, I'm suddenly having a problem while playing Season mode. In the fifth inning of my third season game, it won't stop crashing and now I can't even get into Season mode without a crash occuring. I hope this can be fixed.
Jason Chamberlain
Great nostalgia but bugs.. im 12 games into a season and currently in the middle of a game. every time I try to continue my game it just keeps playing the game intro over and over again. other than that it's great! Just takes a bit of getting used to tapping to do everything.
One Nutt
phenomenal that I get to play this on my phone. wish they could of added controller inputs on screen since they have big open spaces on the side. it's a little weird to tap where to pitch and bat when you can't see where you are tapping but at least you get to play it.
Taylor Jennings
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.
Don Anglin
I can't play the game without it crashing anymore. I get scumerror out of array pointers. bases are loaded and it happens when I get walked or hit it and the fielder grabs the ball.
Ryan Smith
Loving the nostalgia. This was a HUGE part of my childhood. Only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is the lack of controller support. I installed this on an android device that has an integrated controller. I assume this is due to the lack of source code. Still worth it
Salvador Delgado Fernandez Delgado
game is fun like the old computer game back in the day. but the scumerror message after second playoff game is annoying. The error closes the app and the game reverts back to prior to playing the last game. After all the hours getting to that point to end in an error that should have been caught in beta testing prior to luanch.
Itwasnot Me
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
Gabriel Olague
Overall it's almost identical to the original game. It's been bring back all the memories of my childhood. The biggest struggle is the constant crashes of the app. It's almost to the point of it being unplayable.
Conner “fatalCondor” Mattern
I loved playing this game on PC and was stoked to play this on mobile. unfortunately, I can't play this game. I can't swing the bat once the pitch is made. I don't know I'm doing something wrong, but there are no on screen buttons or options for it. what a shame.
Mike Robles
a very fun game. it's very fun to get in to a to a season and play with both the regular cast and the mlb stars. the only issue I have is that some of the buttons are a little too small making it hard to pick characters and navigate the menus.
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