Backyard Baseball '97 4+
Power-up your baseball dreams
Playground Productions LLC
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- $4.99
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Description
Rediscover the joy of the original Backyard Baseball 1997! Build your roster from the iconic cast of 30 characters stacked with charming personalities and witty banter, and get the edge on the competition with power-ups, fireball pitches, super strength, and Pablo Sanchez!
Play pick-up games, practice batting, and compete in single games or a whole season with simple, intuitive controls that anyone can master!
Game Modes:
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 to choose players from a random pool of characters.
Season: You create a team and manage it 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). The winner advances to the championship series which consists of the Super Entire Nation Tournament (best of 3) and then the Ultra Grand Championship of the Universe Series (best of 5)!
Batting Practice: 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 that ball!
T-ball - Select T-ball mode for more accessible game play. Simply click to hit, run, and field!
BACKYARD BASEBALL RULES
The rules for Backyard Baseball are a hybrid of Pro and Little League rules:
No leading off
No Injuries
Bunting is allowed
Tagging up is allowed
Stealing is allowed
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. Backyard Baseball '97 runs buttery smooth for iOS devices, looks better than ever, and creates a new installation for digital preservation within the Backyard Sports catalog that allows the next generation of fans to fall in love with the title that started it all.
What’s New
Version 1.1.4
- Resolved device support bugs
- Optimizations and stability improvements
- Resolved memory crash errors
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Notes
Swing, batta batta! Cheeky heckling and memorable stars make this remastered classic as fun as we remember.
Nearly Perfect 🙌🏼
This game is exactly what I was looking for! The game is such a throwback and so well done. My only criticisms are that it would be nice to see the game brought to full screen to utilize the entire screen of the phone, and that sometimes the game crashes and the app shuts down and upon restarting you find that you have to restart the entire game that you were in the middle of playing. I’m sure with a little more polishing. This game can be refined and become even greater. Thank you guys so much for putting out the effort to make this happen and bring it to the mobile platform. I really hope you guys continue developing this further and consider releasing even more titles in the future. Maybe you could release them as add-ons so that we could play different versions released in following years all under the same app? I’m thinking either one backyard sports app with all the different sports and different versions released in subsequent years? I’m sure it will take a lot of time, but…what do you think? I’m just saying, I think it would be amazing. Goodbye death scrolling on social media and HELLOO backyard sports!
A little buggy but the fun is still there
First off, I wanna thank you guys for reviving this franchise I’ve enjoyed for over 20 years. I am happy to support and continue to support your efforts so Pablo Keisha and the gang can reach new audiences.
However, please keep working on fine tuning this. I just had won 11-0 and at the end of game screen I get a “scummerror” and crashed the game, causing me a wasted 45 minutes. There’s also been some audio choppiness at times. I believe in you guys to get it right, I know it isn’t as easy as you make it seem, but it is a little frustrating. Guess I’ll just have to save more often.
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Information
- Seller
- Playground Productions LLC
- Size
- 239.4 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.6 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.6 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 Playground Productions
- Price
- $4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.