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Backyard baseball 2003 babe ruth
Backyard baseball 2003 babe ruth









backyard baseball 2003 babe ruth

Nick grew up playing wiffle ball with his neighborhood friends, and he went on to work for a video game company in Seattle called Humongous Entertainment. "If you hit it into the neighbor's yard, it's an automatic out - and you have go get it." "First base is the chimney," Nick Mirkovich recalls. Pablo’s roots can be traced all the way back to a makeshift field in Olympia, Washington. Yet here was this hit computer game from 20 years ago that starred a Hispanic character - who's still popular today.Īt Only A Game, we started to wonder - who invented Pablo Sanchez? And why?

backyard baseball 2003 babe ruth

These days, you hear a lot - probably not enough - about the shortage of minority characters in children's books, games and movies.

backyard baseball 2003 babe ruth

"Also, because I took Spanish, I was like, 'Oh yeah, cool, cool. As far as I can remember, he only spoke to Spanish." "If I remember correctly, the shirt did not cover his entire belly," says another.īut there is something else that every former Backyard Baseball player seems to remember about Pablo Sanchez: "He was like an 8 year old with a dad bod before dad bods were a thing," remembers one former Backyard Baseball enthusiast. "He'd come up to bat, and the bat would be almost the same size as him," former Only A Game intern Ryan Fitzgerald recalls. Pablo was the best of the bunch - he was fast enough to nab infield hits, strong enough to belt home runs and skilled enough to pitch. Pablo Sanchez was the standout character in Backyard Baseball - a popular computer game released in 1997. Instead of starring pro players, the original Backyard Baseball featured only cartoon children. (Cartoon children who could blast 400-foot home runs.) If you were a sports fan born in the '90s, you probably already know that. "Pablo was like Babe Ruth crossed with Mike Trout crossed with Sandy Koufax." (Timballs/YouTube) This article is more than 5 years old. Pablo Sanchez was nicknamed the "Secret Weapon" but he wasn't much of a secret.











Backyard baseball 2003 babe ruth