Eephus

I've been seeing this word a lot in baseball articles - eephus. Curiosity got the better of me, so I Googled and found this article by Kirk Robinson on www.thebaseballpage.com:

The purest junk - the junkiest pitch in history - is the Eephus pitch, invented by Rip Sewell of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the thirties. The Eephus pitch is a pitch with absolutely nothing on it - no velocity, no fancy spin, and no break. No deception at all. And most of all, no SPEED. ...

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