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 ...
“The movie’s 80-percent scripted,” Lund said, “but everyone was living together in a cabin in the woods [near the field], and playing baseball every day, so by week three they were ...
Lund fills in the gaps between innings with quotes from baseball legends including Rickey Henderson, Babe Ruth and Yogi Berra. The ghosts of the game loom large over "Eephus," which is named for a ...
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 ...