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 ...

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

The former major league pitcher, who has a role in the upcoming film “Eephus,” remains willing to share his offbeat outlook on life, politics and baseball.

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 ...

“Eephus,” which opens ... for the love of the game,” said Bill Lee, who played at Soldiers Field in bygone days. “I said, ‘As long as I get to pitch, I’ll come.’” ...

"Eephus" a charming baseball film about the final game at a town team field and "Every Little Thing," a documentary about a Los Angeles woman who rehabilitates injured and ill ...

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 ...

In baseball, an “eephus” is a trick pitch, a high-arcing throw that ... and while it can sometimes lose a game — Bill “Spaceman” Lee notoriously threw an eephus that cost the Boston ...

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.