MLBAM's licensed fantasy partners will
have the ability to create fantasy
baseball games utilizing Major League Baseball trademarks, including
club
names and logos, as well as the names, numbers, likenesses, playing records,
and biographical
data of current MLB players.
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season play (with all the stats) and varying
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Since its launch in 1997, Backyard
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units.
"Backyard Baseball is awesome because it lets
kids see what it's actually
like to play Major League baseball," says Pujols, who enjoys playing
Backyard
Baseball with his son AJ."
The only kid's game to hold the coveted MLB and Major
League Baseball
Players Association (MLBPA) licenses, Backyard Baseball 2007 features a roster
full
of top professionals as kids such as Alex Rodriguez, Ichiro Suzuki, Lance
Berkman, David Ortiz, Vladimir
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National Hockey League.
Visit http://www. To further enhance
some of these
licensed partners' fantasy offerings, MLBAM also will provide player video
highlights
and game highlights for use in fantasy-related online shows to be
produced by the companies.
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program of significantly
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, the game's kid-friendly, non-violent format, and
high level of cultural diversity makes it especially
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registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment
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"We are very pleased to have been able to sign fantasy licensing or
marketing agreements
with nearly every company that responded to our
invitation to discuss the 2006 fantasy season," Kliavkoff
concluded. With millions of baseball fans out
there who have never played fantasy, MLBAM's primary
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Humongous, Inc. Fantasy Licensing Agreements With Yahoo! Sports
, ESPN and CBS SportsLine
NEW YORK, MLB Advanced Media, LP (MLBAM), the
interactive media
and Internet company of Major League Baseball, announced
today that Opening Day for the 2006 Fantasy
Baseball Season will be next
Thursday, February 16, the voluntary reporting day for pitchers and
catchers
to Spring Training. "Our goal, in
concert with our carefully selected partners, is to
grow baseball fantasy,
enhancing the experience of current fantasy players and encouraging the
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Widely regarded as one of the best players in the game
, Pujols is also
known for outstanding sportsmanship, wholesome values, and extensive community
service
, qualities that make him the ideal representative for Backyard
Baseball, the most popular children
's baseball video game franchise ever.MLB.com Announces 2006 Fantasy Opening Day February 16;
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and its licensed partners, will
unveil their new, exciting and expanded fantasy offerings for 2006
, and fans
around the globe will have the opportunity to begin assembling their fantasy
teams for
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National League MVP Albert Pujols Signs as Highlight Player for Backyard Baseball 2007
Founded in 1992,
Humongous (formerly Humongous Entertainment) is owned by France-based
Infogrames
Entertainment SA, the largest video games publisher in Europe, and
parent company to Atari. Along
with Backyard Sports, Humongous is recognized
for high-quality, animated CD-ROMs starring original
characters.
MLBAM has signed landmark, multi-year licensing agreements with ESPN, CBS
SportsLine
and Yahoo! Sports for the online operation, distribution, marketing
and promotion of PC-based Internet
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Backyard Baseball 2007 is the latest entry in the Backyard Sports series
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the best selling sports video gaming franchise for kids and the only game
brand licensed by ALL
professional US sports leagues: Major League Baseball,
Major League Baseball Players Association
, National Football League, NFL
Players Inc. publishes the award-winning Backyard Sports video games
series-the best selling sports gaming franchise for kids.
"In ESPN, CBS SportsLine and Yahoo
! Sports, we have found partners who,
like us, are not satisfied with the status quo in fantasy offerings
," said
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