Backyard Baseball 2003

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.

1. Nomar Garciaparra

   

2. Greg Vaughn
3. Alex Rodriguez
4. Frank Thomas
5. Jimmy Rollins
6. Todd Helton
7. Albert Pujols
8. Barry Bonds
9. Randy Johnson
10. Richie Sexson
11. Jeff Bagwell
12. Jeff Conine
13. Chipper Jones
14. Derek Jeter
15. Troy Glauss
16. Mike Piazza
17. Brad Radke
18. Carlos Delgado
19. Ken Griffey Jr.
20. Vladimer Guerrero
21. Sammy Sosa
22. Carlos Beltran
23. Tim Hudson
24. Jim Thome
25. Phil Nevin
26. Cliff Floyd
27. Jason Kendall
28. Ichiro
29. Bobby Higginson
30. Jason Giambi

Fictional Players

Backyard Baseball 2003 also includs 30 fictional players. These are the same characters that are in other Backyard Sports Games.

1. Jocinda Smith

   

2. Ronny Dobbs
3. Mario Luna
4. Achmed Khan
5. Tony Delvecchio
6. Dimitri Petrovich
7. Gretchen Hasselhoff
8. Lueane Lui
9. Kimmy Eckman
10. Ricky Johnson
11. Annie Frazier
12. Mikey Thomas
13. Lisa Crocket
14. Amir Khan
15. Sally Dobbs
16. Pete Wheeler
17. Dante Robinson
18. Vicki Kawaguchi
19. Reese Worthington
20. Kenny Kawaguchi
21. Stephanie Morgan
22. Sidney Weber
23. Ashely Weber
24. Angela Delvecchio
25. Marky Dubois
26. Pablo Sanchez
27. Billy Jean Blackwood
28. Jorge Garcia
29. Ernie Steele
30. 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

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:

• 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.