Backyard Baseball '01 Hits iOS and Android: Play with Pro Players in Kid Form!

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Batter up!

• Backyard Baseball '01 is now available on iOS and Android
• Dive into full-on amateur tournaments and duke it out with cartoonish fun
• Real-life pro players are shrunk down to kid forms, allowing you to build your own crazy teams

For fans of Backyard Baseball, today will be a red-letter day as the hit sequel Backyard Baseball '01 hits storefronts once more! Whether it's just casual matches or a full-on ramshackle world tournament pitting legends of baseball against the immortal Pablo Sanchez, it's all available now!

For those who don't know, Backyard Baseball is an arcade-style take on the classic sport. But rather than pro teams, it pits typical backyard kids against one another in makeshift stadiums set in, you guessed it, their backyard. Kids, they may be, but these tykes are still able to pull off some spectacular feats.

Backyard Baseball '01 offers all the same fan-favourite mechanics, modes and other aspects that made the original such a hit. Not only that, but it also brings in real-life pro players in child form, letting you build out your amateur team with some real heavy-hitters.

Swing for the fences

Be it playing a simple one-and-done match, jumping into full-on tournament play, and enjoying live commentary and a variety of cartoonish antics, Backyard Baseball offers all the summer fun of baseball as you might have imagined it when you were a kid.

And if it's given you an itch for playing more sports action that you need to scratch, why not dig into some of the other great offerings on mobile? We've collated our own recommendations into a list of the top sports games on iOS and Android for all you athletics fanatics to peruse!