Backyard Baseball 2007

Backyard Baseball 2007 combines the friendly playground atmosphere with your favorite MLB players. Play with or against the kids and pros! Create your own team, and control every wacky pitch, clutch hit, and sprint for home. Play with or against pros like Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez, and unlock secret pros and amazing power-ups. You'll have big-league ball right in your own backyard. Multiple modes of play - Single Game, Season Play, Batting Practice and Home Run Derby All-new Fielders' Challenge mini-game Full stats and standings in Season Play
Customer Review: Two Thumbs Down, Get Backyard Baseball 2005 Instead
Plainly put this product blatently sucks, sorry, I can almost always find something positive to say about a game but this is just a sorry excuse for a game. You cannot play with a controller on PC? What kind of baseball game doesn't let you use a controller, I mean a baseball game is perfectly in sync with the layout on a controller, to use a mouse or keyboard to play is ludicrous. I'm sure the other versions (PS2, GBA) use controllers why the heck can't they incorporate that feature into PC? I love Backyard Baseball 2005 and only bought this to upgrade a bit, thinking they would have improved a few things, but no improvements whatsoever. The field isn't fully visible when you hit the ball, it's near impossible to control fielders with a mouse, using the keyboard to hit a ball is a clunky interface at best, still no network support for multiplayer games?? C'mon it's BB 2007 not 1997. And what is this business of playing the game direct off of CDROM ? That means updates/patches are never gonna happen, you can't patch a CD Disc, UGHHHH! Pity to the peeps whose CD Rom drives poop out from whirring away for an hour to play this game. I wish I would have read the other reviews on amazon before I bought this stinker. Please listen to me, the only thing this game would be good for is a birthday present to a kid you don't like very much : ) Sorry I wish I could say better
Customer Review: great for car trips
I recommend this fun and creative game with just a couple of caveats: it can burn a lot of time and it eventually becomes boring (i.e. after some months it will collect dust on the shelf). I bought this game for my 7-year-old son after he thoroughly enjoyed Backyard Soccer. I noticed that the soccer game increased his desire to play the actual outdoor game and his performance on his real soccer team visibly improved. The baseball game has peaked his interest in trying out baseball and he is yearning for summer when he can join a real little league team. Each game can take a lot of time, and I like to limit my son's time on video games, but I think it is perfect for long car rides. We often drive for 12 hours, and my son can spend much of that time playing just this one game. It is hard to find anything else to occupy his attention for that long. I think it is fairly challenging, even at the beginning level, but with sufficient practice you can put together a winning team at any level. We also enjoy examining all the statistics, which is what makes baseball an interesting sport.

I've compiled a list of Do's and Don't when selecting baseball drills. First, the Do's:

Certainly you're aware of the importance of strength & conditioning for baseball. Long gone are the days of the 155 pound shortstop that barely hit above the Mendoza line. Today's game has dramatically turned into a blend of power, speed and explosiveness and if you're not performing the correct baseball exercises you'll be left behind faster than a Josh Beckett fastball.

Baseball Exercises for Strength and Flexibility

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Stick to this list and youll not only be performing the correct exercises, youll be light years ahead of your competition!

Sadly, most are extremely confused about how to properly train for baseball. So called "experts" (who've never really trained a real athlete) dole out advice even if you don't ask for it. The mindset of most is if they've worked-out a few times in their life all of a sudden they know it all. Well, the only one that hurts is you, the individual looking for exercises that will help take your game to the next level.

DO:

• Learn the basics - learn how to properly perform all versions of the squat, deadlift, Olympic Lifts (Power Clean & Power Snatch), bench press, push press, pull-up and row. These are movement patterns that should comprise about 90% of your training. The rest is just details. If you fail to make these exercises 90% or more of your strength work, you'll fall short of your goals by a long shot.
• Focus on movements, not muscle - The body does not work one muscle at a time. So why would you train that way? The exercises above help develop athleticism and the ability of the body to work as one harmonious unit. This type of development is what makes a great athlete. So don't worry about a burn or a pump, focus on moving properly.
• Always aim to move fast, yet controlled - I'm sure you've heard the term slow and controlled when describing how to lift weights. Slow doesn't happen in baseball. Everything is explosive and ballistic. You're training should be that way. This happens over time. Each time you're performing baseball workouts try to move a little quicker tan the last. It's that simple. Be sure to always maintain control. A great ball player is explosive and controlled. It's VERY difficult to move a light object (bat, ball) at very high speed while under control. Some were born with this. Others have to work very hard at it. Either way, make it a focus of your training.
• Perform a balanced routine - Don't simply do a few sets of bench press and bicep curls and think that will help your game. In fact if you're not doing a 3 to 1 ratio of pull to push exercises then you can just about count on an injury occurring at some point in your playing career in addition to never realizing your full potential. You must balance out the muscular imbalances baseball (and life) develop.