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 ...

Places come; places go. Every human being deals with loss differently. “Eephus” acknowledges that, but it’s a sweet, sidewinding paradox of a sports movie: sentimental in a quietly unsentimental and ...

An eephus pitch is a low-speed, high-arcing lob thrown with three fingers like a curveball. This trick-pitch’s power is in its slowness, which confuses batters. “You get bored watching it,” says ...

Weekend warriors on their beloved Massachusetts field of battle, fighting a setting sun, form the warmly gruff, jersey-clad roster of “Eephus,” Carson Lund’s appealing beer toast of a baseball picture ...

In "Eephus," a group of middle-aged men gather to play one last game on their hometown baseball field before it's paved to make way for a new school. And that's it. There's nothing fancy about this ...

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 ...

Many of the films on that list are included in the Belcourt’s current series, Weekend Classics: Batter Up! (Shout-out to the theater for also programming the forgotten 1976 comedy The Bingo Long ...

If you love baseball, you’ll love Carson Lund’s sports comedy “Eephus.” Note, I did not say “if you love baseball movies.” I said baseball itself. Because this film is basically a complete baseball ...

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 ...