MLB.com credits Pirates pitcher Rip Sewell with throwing the first eephus. It was named by teammate Maurice Van Robays, saying, “Eephus ain’t nothing, and that’s a nothing pitch.” MLB.com stretched ...
Carson Lund’s lyrical film goes inside the last game played on a ballfield that’s about to be bulldozed in a small New ...
The former major league pitcher, who has a role in the upcoming film “Eephus,” remains willing to share his offbeat outlook ...
Director Carson Lund used to play seriously as a kid but caught the film bug. He bridges his two passions with 'Eephus,' a ...
Film captures a beer-league baseball game played by fading semi-athletes at a New England ball field destined to be torn down ...
Set in Massachusetts, the film takes place during a single game between two amateur teams on the last day before their field ...
In baseball, an eephus pitch is the ultimate fake-out ... “Eephus” for his directorial debut: Former pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee, who threw the occasional eephus and continued to play ...
More importantly, Greinke still occasionally throws the archaic “eephus” pitch that lends the movie ... also will delight in a late cameo by Bill Lee, nicknamed “Spaceman,” an eccentric ...
Among them is the Boston Red Sox alum Bill “Spaceman” Lee, one of Major League Baseball’s best-known practitioners of the eephus pitch back in the 1970s, who appears in a cameo role.