The Eephus pitch is one of baseball’s most peculiar pitches. It’s high-arcing, slow lob has perplex batters for decades. Where did it start? In this short segment for Backstory, Larry Potash gives us ...

The title Eephus (now streaming on Mubi) isn’t just a nonsense word – it’s a baseball reference obscure enough to zing, rather ironically, right by casual fans like a 90 mph fastball. Dating back ...

Like forbidden love and corruption, the sports world is a natural subject for movies. The conflict is ingrained — two sides vying for one victory. And there’s drama. Rocky lasts 15 rounds with the ...

I want opinions: is the Eephus underrated? I think so, and Zack Greinke’s recent success utilizing this pitch has in my mind ...

A small-town baseball game stretches on into the night in Carson Lund's adorably existential, off-kilter take on the sports movie. Their future, it should also be pointed out, is our past: Lund sets ...

Call her an actor-singer-pitcher. Once again proving there's not much she can't do, Jennifer Hudson added a perfect first pitch ahead of the Kansas City Royals game on Tuesday to a résumé that already ...

When Cincinnati Reds catcher Jose Trevino recorded the slowest pitch of the 2025 MLB season July 8 against the Miami Marlins, he was trying to break the record of a pitch he received in 2021, ...

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 ...