Eephus: The Last Days of Baseball

Eephus: The Last Days of Baseball

It’s the last days of baseball. Men gather for their routine game of ball before their beloved ballpark is demolished to make way for a school. Eephus is a slow-burn hangout movie, capturing a single ballgame, as an elegiac metaphor for the passage of time, what gets lost in the forward lurch of chronology, and the generational phasing out of meaningful communal spaces. Named after a tricky low-velocity pitch, the Eephus, the movie moves like th…