The Gist: Fade in: The dew evaporates on Soldiers Field in Douglas, Massachusetts, a real-life field in a real-life town, pop. 9,000 or so. The world’s weariest radio DJ reads the news, including a ...

Baseball is rapidly becoming a game of athletic excellence. Its players are stronger and fitter than ever. They throw faster, swing harder, and routinely make plays of astounding agility, the kind ...

In Carson Lund’s “Eephus,” two teams – the Riverdogs and Adler’s Paint – gather on a neighborhood field for a baseball game. The leaves are already starting to turn — “It’s getting late early,” as ...

Early in Carson Lund’s indie comedy “Eephus,” a grey-bearded, bitter amateur baseball player watches a group of kids playing soccer on a pristine field. Looking down, he is reminded of the degraded ...

An eephus pitch is one of baseball’s many pieces of niche ephemera. It’s a weird trick throw that’s barely ever glimpsed in the professional game—an arcing lob of the ball, traveling at half the speed ...

"Can't quit this field, huh? Doesn't wanna stop playing..." Music Box Films has revealed an official trailer for Eephus, an indie baseball movie made by filmmaker Carson Lund as his feature ...

As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England rec-league teams face off for the last time. Tensions flare up and ceremonial laughs are ...

Within the sports movies subgenre, there have been tons of baseball movies made over the decades. It is America's pastime, after all! There's even an entire book published this month about baseball ...

In baseball, an “eephus” is a trick pitch, a high-arcing throw that appears to cross the plate somewhere below 55 mph. It’s the opposite of a fastball, and while it can sometimes lose a game — Bill ...

In Carson Lund’s “Eephus,” two teams – the Riverdogs and Adler’s Paint – gather on a neighborhood field for a baseball game. The leaves are already starting to turn — “It’s getting late early,” as ...