Gretchen Hasselhoff (born May 31, nicknamed "Jabberjaw") is one of the characters in the Backyard Sports series. She was known for being one of the chattiest players in the league and talks extremely fast.
Physical Appearance
1997-2001
Gretchen is a girl of average height. She wears a white shirt and blue jeans, and she wears her blonde hair in two pigtails.
2002-2005
Her pigtails are gone, and her hairstyle is different giving her a more androgynous appearance. Her height is a little shorter, and she wears a blue unbuttoned shirt over the white shirt. In the YAGA games, Gretchen's eyes are usually closed; in the RenderWare-based games, her eyes are open.
Personality
Gretchen is hyperactive and likes to talk. She is a fast runner (for the most part) and often speaks her mind. Until Basketball, she spoke with a slight lisp. She has a puppy named Latar (based on the video game). She becomes even more hyperactive when she eats sugar. In Backyard Basketball, she states that after Kimmy Eckman shared some candy with her, she blacked out and found herself atop a flag pole.
Player Cards
Gretchen is fast and smart. She likes playing in the outfield, but her arm is pretty weak so it takes her a few tries to throw the ball back.
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This little jabber-mouth has one of the best slo-mo pitches in the league, plus she gets nice movement on her hooks. Not the strongest throwing arm in the field (in fact, probably the weakest) because she tends to get too excited when the ball comes her way.
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
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If you think Gretchen's mouth is fast, you should see her dribble the ball. Her nice touch makes her a good choice at midfield.
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This little jabber-mouth has some of the best ball control in the league. She's got above average stamina and always shows up for games. When she gets worked up and excited she tends to talk very fast and it's very difficult to understand a word she says.
Kicks: Left
| Kicking | ⚽⚽⚽ |
| Ball Control | ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽ |
| Defense | ⚽⚽⚽ |
| Running | ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽ |
Gretchen is one of the fastest players in the league. She's also got one of the fastest mouths. If she ever stops talking, she'd make a pretty good running back.
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If Gretchen could run as fast as she talks, she'd break the sound barrier. As it is, she's still one of the fastest players in the league.
Throws: Left
| Passing | 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 |
| Catching | 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 |
| Running | 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 |
| Blocking/Tackling | 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 |
| Kicking | 🏈🏈🏈🏈 |
Portrait
Action shot
What Gretchen lacks in basketball skill, she makes up for with energy and effort. If all that hyperactivity could ever be harnessed, it could power a large metropolitan city.
Shoots: Left
| Inside Shooting | 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 |
| Outside Shooting | 🏀🏀🏀🏀 |
| Ball-handling | 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 |
| Defense | 🏀🏀🏀🏀 |
| Quickness | 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 |
Gretchen talks fast. Too bad she doesn't skate that way. Or have any other redeeming hockey skills. But bless her little heart for trying.
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Music
1997-2003
Gallery
Sprites
Trivia
- Gretchen has a cellphone with her in her last appearances.
- Gretchen, Kimmy Eckman, and Angela Delvecchio were all voiced by Corrie-Ann Shenigo, Dolores Rogers, and Lani Minella.
- She may be a tribute to actor David Hasselhoff. In her Baseball profile, she comments on David Hasselhoff's acting and music career, and she mentions that she is not allowed to watch Baywatch.
- She happened to be good at hitting in Backyard Baseball 2005 and '06. Although in the previous games, she was bad at it.
- In the PAL-localized Junior Sports Basketball released for PS2, Gretchen was renamed Heather Wallace and given an Irish accent.
- In the credits of Backyard Basketball 2004, Gretchen can be seen getting drawn by an artist, and the artist is drawing her in her original form from the games from 1997-2002.
- She has a non-canon twin sister in the 2-in-1 Plug-In Game named Josie Hasselhoff.