内容摘要：David Michael picks out a chick to adopt from First State Animal Center and SPCA on Friday, May 16, 2025, in Camden, Del. (AP Photo/Mingson Lau)

David Michael picks out a chick to adopt from First State Animal Center and SPCA on Friday, May 16, 2025, in Camden, Del. (AP Photo/Mingson Lau)

The tale is more compelling when Synnott is engaging with living Franklin-ologists like Canadian Tom Gross, who has been searching for Franklin’s tomb and collecting evidence of what happened for decades. Gross was scouting King William Island in a small plane in 2015 when he observed “two black stones standing up vertically on a ridge” that did not belong a few miles inland. But in their excitement at the discovery, he and his co-pilot forgot to note the GPS coordinates and he’s still looking for what he believes were markers of Franklin’s tomb a decade later.If all this sounds like it might be better watched on TV, you’re in luck. National Geographic funded Synnott’s voyage, as it has many of his previous adventures, and the stunning scenery and drama on the high seas is available to view on Disney+ as “Explorer: Lost in the Arctic.” If you’re not a subscriber, the best parts of the book let readers travel in their mind “beneath massive waterfalls that cascaded from the heights… thousands of feet tall, and where they poured into the sea, clouds of fulmars, cormorants and kittiwakes circled in the salty mist.”

two teams – the Riverdogs and Adler’s Paint – gather on a neighborhood field for a baseball game. The leaves are already starting to turn — “It’s getting late early,” as Yogi Berra said — and this is to be the final game for their adult rec league. The field is to be demolished.No one would confuse them for all-stars. A suicide squeeze unfolds in creaky slow-motion. The rotund left fielder mutters “Mother McCree” under his breath when the ball is hit in the gap. But, regardless of skill level, they all care sincerely about the game.“Eephus,” as leisurely as a late-August double header, simply unfolds along with their game. Except to chase a foul ball or two, the movie stays within the lines of Soldier Field, the nondescript Massachusetts baseball field they’re playing on sometime in the 1990s. It spans nine innings, with dugout chatter and fading light. In this slow-pitch gem of a baseball movie — a middle-aged “Sandlot” — time is slipping away, but they’re going down swinging.

Money, analytics and whatever’s on ESPN can sometimes cloud what sports is to most people: A refuge. “Eephus,” in that way, is a change-up of a baseball movie, an elegiac ode to the humbler weekend warriors who are driven by nothing but genuine affection for the game. Richly detailed and mordantly deadpan, “Eephus” adopts their pace of play, soaking up all the sesame-seed flavor that goes along with it.The title comes from an unnaturally slow pitch not slung but lobbed toward home. When I was a kid pitching, I liked to uncork one from time to time, much to my coach’s dismay. The metaphor isn’t hard to grasp. One player describes it as a pitch you can get bored watching, even making you lose track of time.

This image released by Music Box Films shows Cliff Blake in a scene from “Eephus.” (Music Box Films via AP)

This image released by Music Box Films shows Cliff Blake in a scene from “Eephus.” (Music Box Films via AP)“She’s a great shooter, she runs and she’s very tall,” Leite said. “I think it’s difficult to arrive late so I need to help her, on defense and offense.

And Salaun is beginning to learn the plays and various sets ahead of the team’s second game Wednesday at Chase Center,The coaches arrived early at the Oakland training facility Monday to work with Salaun.

“She’s picking things up really fast,” coach Natalie Nakase said. “But we were sending her stuff when she played overseas, we were sending her film, we were doing Zoom sessions. We’re preparing her.”Part of that also will be monitoring her court time early on to avoid overuse considering Salaun has been playing.