Two contemporary films reimagined the stories we tell about the sport.

Eephus” — 3 stars In Carson Lund’s “Eephus,” two teams — the Riverdogs and Adler’s Paint — gather on a neighborhood field for ...

Lund fills in the gaps between innings with quotes from baseball legends including Rickey Henderson, Babe Ruth and Yogi Berra ...

Carson Lund’s lyrical film goes inside the last game played on a ballfield that’s about to be bulldozed in a small New ...

By Jordan Mintzer Baseball movies are more than a mere subgenre of sports movies; they’re a whole genre unto themselves. With nearly 200 feature-length titles, both fiction and documentary ...

Eephus is a new movie by first-time film director Carson Lund. Set in New England, the film follows two men’s league baseball ...

Over its 97 years, the Music Box Theatre — which opened the year the Cubs lost the 1929 World Series to the Philadelphia Athletics — has shown plenty of baseball movies, from “Pride of the ...

Anyone who’s played in a long-running, hopelessly mediocre pickup game—of any sport—will feel warm affection for the ambling, amiable baseball movie Eephus, the debut feature from writer ...

Except to chase a foul ball or two, the movie stays within the lines of Soldier Field, the nondescript Massachusetts baseball field they’re playing on sometime in the 1990s. It spans nine ...

Note, I did not say “if you love baseball movies.” I said baseball itself. Because this film is basically a complete baseball game. All nine innings are played, and the film’s leisurely pace ...