If this version of Backyard Baseball would have come out just a few years later, Barry Bonds would be portrayed as a fat kid too. You can tell because the creators of the game just made them look like cute fat kids. You can always the players (like Mark McGwire) who had already begun using steroids with this game came out.

Mark McGwire is a guaranteed home run per game when he’s playing at Parks Department Field #2. Backyard Baseball came out prior to, or at least early on, in A-Rod’s steroid using career, so he’s still got some speed, and still has enough range to play shortstop. I got A-Rod hitting in the 2-hole for the same reason Barry Bonds is batting lead off.

But powerful enough to lead off the game strong with a solo home run any given day In all fairness, this is pre-Barry Bonds steroid use. This is how you know steroids ran rampant in Backyard Baseball. Say what you want about ethics and what not, but this team beats your team 10 time out of 10. So I took the time to draft the most controversial Backyard Baseball team I could put together. But this game was a HUGE part of my childhood, and it blows my mind to think about how all my favorite players from Backyard Baseball were little league steroid users (Pablo “The Secret Weapon: Sanchez excluded). You’ll be hard pressed to many pros featured in this computer game who haven’t been caught up in some sort of controversy.

The cast of characters chosen by the Backyard Baseball crew is nothing short of spectacular. But if you ask me, the game really took off when Backyard Baseball 2001 came out, and they included child versions of Major League Baseball players. The original Backyard Baseball consisted of entirely fictional child baseball players, which was a blast. I spent hours upon hours of my days drafting unstoppable teams, and winning BBL Championships. I’ve been wanting to blog about the computer game Backyard Baseball for a while now.

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