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Pedro Martinez (Boston Red Sox) (Unlocked in BY Baseball 2005 by throwing a shutout in either Pick-up Game or Season Play mode) Randy Johnson P (Arizona Diamondbacks) (Unlocked in BY Baseball 2005 by achieving 75 strikeouts in Season Play) Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs).

Professional baseball players and fans are pouring into metro Phoenix for spring training. But many current and former players make the Valley home all year long.

Several players have recently bought upscale homes or mansions in the Valley, and others are trying to sell their multi-million dollar homes.

Check out their homes, ranked by price:

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Topping the list with the priciest metro Phoenix home is the “Big Unit.” The Hall of Famer and former Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher has his 25,000-square-foot Paradise Valley mansion on the market. The asking price is $16.5 million.

Johnson, a left-handed pitcher, was called the 'Big Unit' because of his 6-foot-10-inch height.

Johnson's house has a poker room with a firefighter pole that drops you down to a movie theater decked out with lots of big, comfy leather seats. A professional recording studio and music room feature real bank vault doors. The workout facility is the size of a small house.

The house was built in 2006 after the Diamondbacks traded Johnson to the New York Yankees. Robert Joffe, a co-founder of Scottsdale-based Launch Real Estate, has the listing.

Matt Williams

The Paradise Valley estate of “Matt the Bat,’’ a former third baseman and current Oakland Athletics coach is listed for $9.5 million.

The 15,000-square-foot mansion sits on two acres near Camelback Mountain and comes with six bedrooms, six-and-a-half bathrooms, a seven-car garage and eight fireplaces.

Williams played in the World Series while with the San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians and Arizona Diamondbacks. David Newman of Russ Lyon Sotheby's International Realty has the listing.

Andre Ethier

Last summer, Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Andre Ethier scored $4.9 million on the sale of his 9,326-square-foot Gilbert mansion, which has a tropical paradise backyard.

The sale was one of the highest priced in East Valley history.

The house has a batting cage, game room, soccer field, windmill and two-story closet with a ladder.

But Phoenix native Ethier isn’t expected to leave the Valley anytime soon. He and his wife Maggie paid $1.65 million for a lot in Phoenix’s coveted Arcadia neighborhood last year.

Damion Easley

The former major league infielder Damion Easley sold a baseball-themed Glendale mansion for $4.25 million a few years ago.

The Glendale home came with an indoor batting cage, a miniature outdoor diamond, a bedroom adorned with a scoreboard and another room with a mural of Tiger Stadium, where he played for the Detroit Tigers. Shower tiles in a few of the house's eight-and-a-half bathrooms form baseball diamonds.

Easley played second and third base as well as shortstop during his 17-year big-league career. His most productive years were in Detroit, where he was an All-Star in 1998. He played for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2006.

Trevor Thornton Crowe

The former MLB outfielder for the Cleveland Indians recently paid $3.25 million for a mansion in Phoenix's Arcadia neighborhood. The 6,910-square-foot Spanish-style estate has five bedrooms and 6-and-a-half bathrooms.

George Brett

The Hall of Famer and former third baseman for the Kansas City Royals paid $3.015 million for a 5,000-square-foot Paradise Valley home during spring training last year.

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Brett was a 13-time All-Star and was named the American League’s Most Valuable Player in 1980.

Tim Salmon

The former Los Angeles Angels slugger nicknamed 'King Fish' is selling his spacious cabin in Flagstaff's Forest Highlands for $2.99 million.

The six-bedroom, six-bathroom home is on a 1.4-acre property with views of the San Francisco Peaks. Built with Rocky Mountain logs, the 6,453-square-foot home includes a floor-to-ceiling fireplace, wood floors and a great room with walls of windows.

The 15-year baseball veteran is a graduate of Phoenix's Grand Canyon University. Mary Mendoza of Russ Lyon Sotheby's International Realty has the listing.

Backyard Baseball is a series of baseballvideo games for children which was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari. It was first released in October 1997 for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. Later games were featured on Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Wii, and iOS. It is part of the Backyard Sports series. There have been eleven different versions of the game since 1997. Some of the game titles that were created include Backyard Baseball, Backyard Baseball 2001-2010, and Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers.

The original game consisted of 30 neighborhood kids from which the gamer could choose to play.^[1] Over the years, the idea of 'Pro players as kids' became popular, and the original statistics and looks of the players changed. Some of the professional players that were available included Chipper Jones, Frank Thomas, Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Soriano, Ichiro Suzuki, Sammy Sosa, Jim Thome, Albert Pujols, Nomar Garciaparra, Ken Griffey Jr., and Barry Bonds. As the game progresses, there are some professionals that become available or 'unlockable' including Randy Johnson, Derek Jeter, and Mike Piazza.

In Backyard Baseball, players take a managerial role by creating a team of different players to compete against opponents. In the different installments, a player could play an exhibition game or a 14, 16 or 32 game season (different versions vary) followed by the 'Backyard Baseball League' playoffs, which contains the American League and National League divisional series, the AL and NL championship series and finally the 'Backyard Baseball World Series'. Series games will vary per game.

This game has various playable modes, they include: Single Game, Batting Practice, Spectator, and Season Game.

In 2013, The Evergreen Group acquired the intellectual property from Atari.

Legacy[edit]

Pablo Sanchez, one of the playable characters in the game, has been regarded as one of the strongest characters in video game history.^[2][3][4]

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The game has also been noted for its diversity (gender, race) of characters, both in ratio of white to non-white and male to female, as well as skill level and the distribution of the best characters.^[5]

Power-Ups[edit]

Sometimes accompanying the four standard batting modes (Power, Line Drive, Grounder and Bunt), some beneficial power-ups appear. In the original Backyard Baseball, these batting power-ups appeared when the player got a hit when the computer used a 'crazy pitch' (see below). Starting from Backyard Baseball 2001, the power ups were awarded after a hit off a 'crazy pitch' and when the player turned a double play or triple play on defense. In addition to these batting power-ups, pitching power-ups, or 'crazy pitches,' also progressively appear, though they are much more frequent and in number, occurring whenever the player strikes an opponent out. These pitches consume much more energy and causes the strike zone to expand, so most of the pitches given are never used consecutively. In addition to the 'crazy pitches,' a strikeout may also award the player 'More Juice,' a full energy recharge for the pitcher that can be used when the player sees fit to use it.

Backyard Baseball 2001

Batting Power-Ups

• Aluminum Power: This power-up is the most valued and can disappear after one or no tries when in use. Players use an aluminum bat to increase the chances to hit a home run.
• Screaming Line Drive: The power-up last about two uses and appears more frequently. Players hit a fast line drive to the wall and allows the batter to run more or all bases.
• Under Grounder: This move lasts at least two uses. Players hit a ground ball that goes into the ground, causing the ball to reappear in any random area of the outfield.
• Crazy Bunt: The move disappears after one or no tries when in use, but if the power-up is used sparingly, the move can last up to four uses. When the ball is hit, the ball rolls around the field erratically as fielders just barely miss catching it.

Pitching Power-Ups

• Big Freeze: The ball is thrown like normal but suddenly stops just before it enters the strike zone, often faking the hitter into swinging at the pitch.
• Elevator: The ball is thrown low along the ground and then the ball suddenly jumps into the air at the last moment.
• Crazyball: the ball 'laughs' when thrown, and it moves in random directions in the air. Easier to hit if swingspot is enabled
• Corkskrew: The ball makes a spiral motion through the air. Easier to hit if swingspot is enabled
• Zigzag: The ball makes a zig-zag motion through the air. Easier to hit if swingspot is enabled
• Slomo: The ball travels very slowly through the air, requiring precise timing to be hit.
• Spitball: The ball is covered with saliva and jerks in the air.
• Fireball: One of the most powerful pitches, the ball blazes past the batter in a ball of fire at an incredibly high speed. When used by a player, this pitch is the most draining of the pitcher's stamina.

Backyard Baseball 2005

Batting Power-Ups

• Sonic Boom: The player knocks down opposing fielders with a super-powerful shockwave.
• Rubber Bat: The batter bounce a grounder really high into the air — the player will have a chance to reach base before any fielder catches the ball.
• Butter Fingers: The player will splatter the opposing fielders with butter. They'll have a slippery time trying to field your hit.
• Jumping Bean Bunt: This tricky power-up makes the ball jump all over the place!
• Lightning Bat: Produce tremendous power when you connect with the ball.
• Geyser Hit: The batter makes the ball burrow deep underground before it suddenly surfaces somewhere in the outfield.
• Piñata Bat: The batter drives fielders crazy when the ball is hit, the ball multiplies into dozens of bouncing baseballs.
• Orbiter: Knock the stuffing out of the ball.

Pitching Power-Ups

• The Fang: The Fang looks like a normal curve-ball, but it bites hard at the last second and goes straight into the dirt.
• Freezer: The Freezer stops just before reaching the strike zone, pauses briefly, and then continues.
• Slo MO: This ball starts moving at ultra-slow speed just before reaching the strike zone.
• Juice Box: The Juice Box will refill your pitcher's Pitch Juice Box.
• Rainbow Pop-up: When it's hit, the ball goes straight into the air for an easy out.
• Crazy Pitch: The Crazy Pitch is so wild that even the pitcher doesn't know where it will go.
• Splitball: This pitch splits into two separate curve-balls, one of which is a fake, unhittable baseball.
• Fireball: The Fireball is so fast it can burn a hole in your catcher's glove.

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References[edit]

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1. ^https://www.theringer.com/features/2017/10/10/16451300/backyard-baseball-20-year-anniversary
2. ^http://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/06/23/backyard-baseball-computer-game-history
3. ^http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/03/the-25-best-virtual-athletes-in-video-games/pablo-sanchez
4. ^http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1990299-most-terrifying-video-game-athletes-to-play-against
5. ^Delayo, Mike. 'The Inclusive Legacy of Backyard Baseball'. Fangraphs.

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