Which is not a bad description of “Eephus,” a tiny but nearly perfect baseball movie that ambles into area theaters this weekend. Some diamond classics swing for the fences: “Bull Durham,” “Field of Dreams,

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to blow out your elbow pitching nine innings of rec league ball. GQ caught up with the minds behind the indie film that perfectly captures both the easy pleasure of a long baseball game and the bittersweet passage of time.

Director Carson Lund's film follows the last game played by two adult Sunday league baseball teams on a field slated for demolition in Douglas, Massachusetts. "It’s baseball as life in all its glorious,

In Carson Lund’s “Eephus,” two teams – the Riverdogs and Adler’s Paint – gather on a neighborhood field for a baseball game. The leaves are already starting to turn — “It’s getting late early,” as Yogi Berra said — and this is to be the final game for their adult rec league.

A n eephus pitch is one of baseball’s many pieces of niche ephemera. It’s a weird trick throw that’s barely ever glimpsed in the professional game—an arcing lob of the bal