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Podcast: Past Ball Podcast
Episode: Inventor of the Eephus Pitch | Pastball Podcast #101
Description: This is the Pastball Podcast, a podcast that you're going to hear a daily MLB story faster than the amount of time you can run around the bases. And I'm your host, Matt, the inventor of the EFIS pitch. The EFIS pitch is a high -arcing, slow -speed baseball pitch, which was popularized by Rip Sewell, a former major league baseball pitcher. He was born in 1907 in Michigan, played for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1938 to 1949. He developed the EFIS pitch in the 40s as a way to surprise batters. with its unorthodox trajectory and slow speed. Often...