New Delhi, March 19 -- J.M. Barrie, author of the Peter Pan books and an enthusiastic amateur cricketer of limited skill, said of his bowling: "If I have sent down a bad delivery I can always pursue the ball, recapture it and send it down again." I know little of baseball, but the Eephus pitch sounds something like that. The Dickson Baseball Dictionary describes it as a "slowly thrown, high-arcing pitch likely to reach an apex of 25 feet above the ground between the mound and the plate". Rip Sewell, who originated the pitch in the 1940s, said it was "Fun to watch, easy to catch, but tough to hit."

Carson Lund's Eephus (playing at the Red Lorry Film Festival in Mumbai this weekend) is fun to watch and easy to catch, arcing in a graceful, ...