Grab your mitt and a bat and head out to a dusty sandlot for a game of old-fashioned pick-up baseball in Humongous Entertainment's Backyard Baseball. Aimed at the five-to-ten-year-old crowd, this game features 30 kids as players to choose from as you assemble the ultimate neighborhood club and try for the Ultra Grand Championship of the Universe.

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Select your team name and colors as well as its mascot, and then choose your starting line-up. Among the colorful cast of characters are ace pitcher Angela Delvecchio and top slugger Marky Dubois. Every kid is rated in running, batting, fielding, and pitching and has personality quirks that may affect the team. For example, Maria Luna is an average player whose skills explode if she's placed on a team whose uniforms are pink, her favorite color.

Once you're done with that, you choose the batting order and the players' spots on the field. To get ready for the season, you can play some batting practice or exhibition contests to get warmed up. There are ten fields to choose from.

Sunny Day and Vinnie 'The Gooch' provide play-by-play commentary for each game as you march through the season and get ready for the playoffs. Power-ups are awarded if you strike out a batter or get a hit off a tough pitcher; they will boost your bats and pitchers' arms and can be used anytime during the game.

On defense, there are 12 pitches to choose from, including the wacky change-up the Big Freeze, which blazes through the air before freezing when it reaches the plate, and the Crazy Ball, which moves in any direction but straight as it barrels toward the batter.

You can track and print statistics during the 14-game season and into the playoffs. Player baseball cards, team photos, schedules, and trophies can also be printed.

Backyard Baseball captures the fun and laughter of summer days spent playing sandlot baseball with the kids from the old neighborhood. Kid announcers Vinnie the Gooch and Sunny Day help your kids get to know each of the 30 girls' and boys' strengths and weaknesses. And just like real little leagues, quirky personalities, contagious clumsiness and hysterical hi-jinks are a big part of the game as your kids laugh their way to the pennant. Backyard Baseball features all of the realism and statistics of adult baseball games, but with simple controls that even the smallest T-ballers can master. Backyard Baseball provides hours of fun that never get rained out!

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• Awesome Player

Go to 'Create your own team' and make their colors all pink. Then select Maria Luna and she will be on fire. She will have 10 batting, 10 running, 9 pitching, and 9 fielding. Have fun! | Submitted by sHoRtMaN

• English Pablo Sanchez

Pablo speaks english! Go to the player cards screen and click on Pablo Sanchez. Then hold shift and click on his picture. He says the same thing every time you do it, though. | Submitted by Justin

• Giant Players

Create a team and never get out with Pablo Sanchez in the first game. | Submitted by DavidRuggles

• Play as Mr. Clanky

To play as Mr. Clanky, go to the trophy case in the clubhouse and hold [Shift] as you click on him!
(Note: This cheat only works in Exhibition Mode.)

• Secret Players

Make a team that is black and called Mighty Monsters. Win all of your season games. Then create another team. You will be able to pick people like: Mark Mcgwire, Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr., Babe Ruth, Hank Arron, and Willey Mays. | Submitted by DavidRuggles

• Special Hitting

When playing the computer, get a person on first. If the computer hits a grounder, throw to second then first(making a double play). Then you will hear a sound to get a special! | Submitted by DavidRuggles

• Strikeouts

Go to season play mode and put in new coach. Pick team, and go to first game. When you are on the field, put the cursor near the batter, on the upper corner and keep pressing escape. Pitch the ball, but still repeatingly press escape. Repeat the process 2 more times, and you will most likely strike the batter out. | Submitted by RyanEades

• Win All Levels

To win all levels is simple. Just kick the ball out of bounds, and press: Shift, Tab, and Enter. Note: May not work on all versions.

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