The film Eephus celebrates the beautiful, blissful anticipation of baseball.

DD:. Even though college basketball’s March Madness is underway, WBGO’s Film Critic is getting excited that Major League ...

Carson Lund's baseball comedy distills the mundane pleasures and casual heartbreak of sport ...

Named after a long, high pitch, the hangout comedy “Eephus” finds humor and pathos in a baseball diamond’s final inning.

Before making the nostalgic sports film “Eephus,” Nashua, New Hampshire, native Carson Lund attended Emerson College and had ...

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 ...

Ex-Red Sox and Expos left-hander Bill Lee was famous for developing off-speed pitches. Michael Dwyer/AP Share An almost ethereal pitcher mysteriously appears in the late innings of “Eephus ...

Director Carson Lund used to play seriously as a kid but caught the film bug. He bridges his two passions with 'Eephus,' a ...

Richly detailed and mordantly deadpan, “Eephus” adopts their pace of play, soaking up all the sesame-seed flavor that goes ...

He’s played by the real-life former major-league pitcher Bill (Spaceman) Lee, an eephus exponent with a reputation as a baseball eccentric. He declares himself ready to pitch a good inning for ...