Changes: Gretchen Hasselhoff

Revision as of 16:42, 29 November 2021

Gretchen Hasselhoff was one of the characters in the Backyard 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.

Skill Ratings

Batting
Running
Pitching
Fielding

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

Skill Ratings

Batting
Running
Pitching
Fielding

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.

Skill Ratings

Kicking
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.

Skill Ratings

Throwing
Catching
Running
Blocking
Kicking

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

Skill Ratings

Passing	🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈
Catching	🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈
Running	🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈
Blocking/Tackling	🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈
Kicking	🏈🏈🏈🏈

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

Skill Ratings

Inside Shooting	🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
Outside Shooting	🏀🏀🏀🏀
Ball-handling	🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
Defense	🏀🏀🏀🏀
Quickness	🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀

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 Junior Sports Basketball for Pal Regions of PS2, her name was Heather Wallace and she had 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 twin sister in the 2-in-1 Plug-In Game. We don’t know her name, all we have is a J.

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