Backyard Baseball is a sports game for computer systems, released in 1997. It is the first installment edition in the Backyard Baseball series, and the first game published as a part of the Backyard Sports (then called "Junior Sports") series overall. (backyardsports.fandom.com) Players created their own baseball teams from a roster of 30 original kid characters, each with their own stats, slogans and theme music.