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 ...

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 ...

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 Major League Baseball season is fast approaching and there's a relatively new movie that's perfect to watch before the ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's set in a small New England town in the '90s. The film takes place over the course of one day. Two rec league baseball teams meet up to play a game in a place called Soldier's Field. This field ...

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, ...

Trailing the San Francisco Giants by eight runs entering the bottom of the eighth, the Chicago Cubs threw in the towel in the form of letting catcher Reese McGuire stride out to the mound and lob some ...

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 ...