PLAY LIKE IT’S 2003

Making fanart for a 20 year old game because I will never stop caring about how broken young Randy Johnson is — and rightfully so. Incidentally, Randy Johnson was probably the first MLB player I ever paid attention to because of Backyard Baseball.

I wanted to also draw young Ichiro…I’ve recently started looking into his MLB career, and it’s pretty incredible. He’s got a badass pre-batting ritual, and has some really berserk outfield plays.

Both Ichiro and Johnson wore the 51 uniform number during their individual times playing for the Seattle Mariners, a fact I find incredibly cool.