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{{GameInfobox
| title = Backyard Baseball
| image = Backyardbaseballcd.jpg
| releasedate = North America: October 10 1997
| platforms = PC, Mac
| developer = Humongous Entertainment
| publisher = Humongous Entertainment
| price = 
| teamnames = Fictional
| playernames = Fictional
}}
'''''Backyard Baseball''''' is a mouse-driven baseball computer game, featuring the first appearance of the most famous fictional athlete of the ’90s generation, Pablo Sanchez. 

== Gameplay Video ==
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== Description ==
''Backyard Baseball'' is a children’s baseball computer game controlled entirely by mouse. The game’s strong personality and character design spawned a long-running series of ''Backyard Sports'' games, the most recent being an iOS/Android game released in 2015. 

This game and the next handful in the ''Backyard Baseball'' series runs on the SCUMM engine (Script Creation Utility for ''Maniac Mansion''). This engine was developed at LucasArts for its line of point-and-click adventure games (''Maniac Mansion'', ''The Secret of Monkey Island'', ''Sam & Max Hit the Road'', etc.) and licensed to Humongous Entertainment, which was founded by Shelley Day and Ron Gilbert, both formerly at LucasArts. 

== Roster ==
Subsequent ''Backyard Baseball'' games would include licensed athletes from Major League Baseball, but each character in the first game is fictional. The diverse roster of 30 children includes 15 boys and 15 girls, with a wide variety of body types and even a player in a wheelchair, Kenny Kawaguchi. 
[[File:Backyardbaseballroster.png|alt=A size chart featuring each individual character in Backyard Baseball standing next to one another. |center|frame|An official size chart for each player on the roster (from ''Backyard Basketball'')]] 

Each player is rated from 1 to 4 in each of four skills: Batting, running, pitching, and fielding. There are a variety of hidden factors that boost or lower players’ abilities. Some are laid out explicitly inside the game (the Webber sisters play together when they’re both on the same team) and others remain rumors (does Maria Luna really play better for teams with pink uniforms?). 

Here are recordings of the voice acting lines for each character in the “Meet the Players” and “Player Select” screens:
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== Intro Cinematic ==
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== External Links ==

* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1waTChkjtCecz_3_dtEMTqnf_r8276NjB_zrzK-n7O6g/htmlview# Spreadsheet with player attributes for ''Backyard Baseball'' series]

[[Category:Developed by Humongous Entertainment]]
[[Category:Published by Humongous Entertainment]]
[[Category:Sandlot baseball games]]
[[Category:Released in 1997]]
[[Category:1990s]]
[[Category:PC games]]
[[Category:Mac games]]