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Eephus

2024 film directed by Carson Lund

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Eephus is a 2024 sports film directed by Carson Lund, in his feature directing debut, and co-written with Michael Basta and Nate Fisher. Starring Keith William Richards in his first lead role, it follows the final game of an amateur New England baseball league before their stadium is demolished.

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The public source identifies “Eephus” as 2024 film directed by Carson Lund. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Eephus, film and directed.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Eephus, film and directed providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eephus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.