Baseball is rapidly becoming a game of athletic excellence. Its players are stronger and fitter than ever. They throw faster, swing harder, and routinely make plays of astounding agility, the kind ...

Call her an actor-singer-pitcher. Once again proving there's not much she can't do, Jennifer Hudson added a perfect first pitch ahead of the Kansas City Royals game on Tuesday to a résumé that already ...

An eephus pitch is a low-speed, high-arcing lob thrown with three fingers like a curveball. This trick-pitch’s power is in its slowness, which confuses batters. “You get bored watching it,” says ...

Players from Adler's Paint in “Eephus.” Jeff Saint Dic, David Torres Jr., Theodore Boulokos, Ethan Ward, John R. Smith Jr. and Brendan “Crash” Burt. Much like its namesake pitch, “Eephus” is a slow ...