Backyard Baseball is a high quality game that works in all major modern web browsers. This online game is part of the Arcade, Sports, Emulator, and GBA gaming categories. Backyard Baseball has 168 likes from 199 user ratings. If you enjoy this game then also play games Backyard Football and Backyard Football 2006. Backyard Baseball 2003 CD-ROM game has a Help file where you can view updated information about the game. We strongly encourage you to take the time to read this file in order to get the benefit of changes made after this manual went to print. To view this file, click on the Start button on the. Get the latest Backyard Baseball 2003 cheats, codes, unlockables, hints, Easter eggs, glitches, tips, tricks, hacks, downloads, achievements, guides, FAQs. Backyard Baseball is a series of children's games for the Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Wii, iPhone OS, and the PC. It is the original game in the Backyard Sports series. Currently all the games in the series have been developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari. It is one of six Backyard Sports games. The original game consisted of 55 neighborhood kids.
It’s been a little over 18 years since Backyard Baseball: 2003 was released. A PC only game, Backyard Baseball served as an early memory of the sport for an entire generation of fans. The game is actually my earliest memory of getting familiarized with the MLB.
In addition to classic fictional characters such as the power hitting Pablo Sanchez or the speedy Pete Wheeler, Backyard Baseball: 2003 featured 30 animated, younger versions of real life MLB players. Each team was represented by a player, with almost every representative making multiple All Star games over their MLB careers.
Remarkably, Backyard Baseball: 2003 already has nine Hall of Fame alumni just 18 years after release.
The list includes:
Frank Thomas, inducted 2014 (first ballot)
Randy Johnson, inducted 2015 (first ballot)
Mike Piazza, inducted 2016
Ken Griffey Jr., inducted 2016 (first ballot)
Jeff Bagwell, inducted 2017
Jim Thome, inducted 2018 (first ballot)
Chipper Jones, inducted 2018 (first ballot)
Vladimir Guerrero, inducted 2018
Derek Jeter, inducted 2020 (first ballot)
In addition to the nine Backyard Baseball: 2003 players who are already members of the Hall of Fame, the recently retired Ichiro is a lock for the tenth. Ichiro of course retired following a season opening series in Japan. He was givena standing ovation as he walked off the field and with his retirement, Albert Pujols became the only active player remaining from Backyard Baseball: 2003. Pujols is also a lock for the Hall of Fame, which brings the game’s HOF floor to 11.
The game also featured Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez, who will likely get in eventually, one way or another. Bonds has increased his Hall of Fame voting percentage in six consecutive seasons of eligibility. He last received 60.7% of the vote this past election, so things are trending in the right direction. If Bonds gets in, A-Rod will get in as well.
There are also multiple bubble candidates among the game’s alumni. Jimmy Rollins has an outside chance of getting in and can point to Barry Larkin as an encouraging sign. Rockies legend Todd Helton also increased his voting share from 16.5% in his first year of eligibility to 29.2% in year two. It would probably take multiple years for both of these guys to get in, but they are undoubtedly among the best of their era and we’ve seen players get in after multiple years of eligibility.
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In addition to 15 potential Hall of Fame alumni, Backyard Baseball: 2003 had several players who qualify for the “Hall of very good.”
Carlos Delgado, Tim Hudson, Sammy Sosa, Carlos Beltran and Cliff Floyd are just a few names from the 30 player roster who certainly had their moments at the MLB level.
Ultimately though, it’s just hard to believe that this game has a floor of 11 Hall of Famers. It really did give the youngest demographic of fans – which included me at the time – a positive representation of the league during the steroid era.
Backyard Baseball 2003 is a baseball sim, with characters that are cartoon kids, not realistic player models. While it has a set of fictional kids known to the franchise it also includes a number of real MLB players, as cartoon modeled kids.
Players
MLB Players
Backyard Baseball has 30 real Major League Baseball players. One from every team during the 2003 MLB season.
- Nomar Garciaparra
- Greg Vaughn
- Alex Rodriguez
- Frank Thomas
- Jimmy Rollins
- Todd Helton
- Albert Pujols
- Barry Bonds
- Randy Johnson
- Richie Sexson
- Jeff Bagwell
- Jeff Conine
- Chipper Jones
- Derek Jeter
- Troy Glauss
- Mike Piazza
- Brad Radke
- Carlos Delgado
- Ken Griffey Jr.
- Vladimer Guerrero
- Sammy Sosa
- Carlos Beltran
- Tim Hudson
- Jim Thome
- Phil Nevin
- Cliff Floyd
- Jason Kendall
- Ichiro
- Bobby Higginson
- Jason Giambi
Fictional Players
Backyard Baseball 2003 also includs 30 fictional players. These are the same characters that are in other Backyard Sports Games.
- Jocinda Smith
- Ronny Dobbs
- Mario Luna
- Achmed Khan
- Tony Delvecchio
- Dimitri Petrovich
- Gretchen Hasselhoff
- Lueane Lui
- Kimmy Eckman
- Ricky Johnson
- Annie Frazier
- Mikey Thomas
- Lisa Crocket
- Amir Khan
- Sally Dobbs
- Pete Wheeler
- Dante Robinson
- Vicki Kawaguchi
- Reese Worthington
- Kenny Kawaguchi
- Stephanie Morgan
- Sidney Weber
- Ashely Weber
- Angela Delvecchio
- Marky Dubois
- Pablo Sanchez
- Billy Jean Blackwood
- Jorge Garcia
- Ernie Steele
- Kiesha Phillips
Gameplay Types
There are four main gameplay types:
Season Mode
Season Mode puts you in the Manager chair, letting you draft your team. You may choose from a selection of 30 fiction characters and 30 real MLB players. You put together a team of nine players, one for every position. You may choose where each player will play, and where they will hit in the batting order. If you win enough games, you will go to the play-offs, and then the championship.
Single Game
In this game type, you are first presented with a screen (see right) that lets you choose your difficulty, length (in innings), if errors are on, and what field you will play on. Once done, you go pick your players, dodgeball style, alternating picks. You then go play your single game.
Batting Practice
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In Batting Practice, you choose one player who then hits batting practice. Robotic pitching machine, Mr. Clankey, pitches you a selection of pitches. You can choose whether he throws you a fastball, slow ball, right curve, or left curve.
Spectator Mode
In Spectator Mode, you simply watch a game being played. You do not choose teams or anything. You simply watch the game being played.
Create A Player Mode
In this mode, you are able to create a player specific to:
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- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Hair style
- Head shape
- Name
- Nickname
- Right or Left handed
- Abilities (stats)
- Birthday
Facts
- There are four different difficulties. Easy, Medium, Hard and Teeball
- You can play Tee-ball in this game.
- If you create a player, and make his name 'Lemon Boy' he will be all maxed out in stats.
- You can pick to play as 6 custom teams.
- You can also play as every major league team.