‘Backyard Baseball’ to Be Adapted as an Animated TV Series Starring Tiffany Haddish

Logo text Backyards aren’t just for baseball anymore. Playground Productions, a media company focused on children and families, is adapting video game Backyard Baseball into an animated series titled Backyard Sports. Backyard Sports: The Animated Series will star (in voice form) Tiffany Haddish as Kiesha Phillips, Donald Faison as Dante Robinson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Dmitri Petrovich, Arturo Castro as star player Pablo Sanchez, Utkarsh Ambudkar as Achmed Khan, Deborah Baker Jr. as Kimmy Eckman, Michael Vlamis as Tony Delvecchio, Ashleigh Crystal Hairston as Sunny Day, Will Neff as Mr. Clanky, Vincent Tong as Kenny Kawaguchi, Joey Rudman as Marky Dubois and Lindsay Barnett as Vinnie. There are more than 30 original “Backyard Kids” from the game(s), which first launched in 1997. Later