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Backyard Baseball '97 Review: One Nostalgic Season With the Melonheads

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"Backyard Baseball '97" will be available to play via Steam on Thursday. | Playground Productions

In exactly one day, Pablo Sanchez and the rest of the Backyard Sports gang will head to Eckman Acres once again for the official return of Backyard Baseball '97.

Back in August, Playground Productions—a new production company dedicated to creating family-friendly content—announced plans to bring back the iconic Backyard Sports franchise that was a staple in many millennial childhoods. And in September, it was announced that the original Backyard Baseball '97 video game would be re-released exactly 27 years after it was initially launched in 1997.

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