Word: slumper
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...course, there are plenty of sophomores who seem happy (although, as any Slumper will tell you, anyone who seems to enjoy themselves must certainly be crumbling beneath their façade, or be completely naïve in their irrational bliss). I don’t intend to make light of those who suffer serious depression or personal problems. But for many sophomores, in a very real way, The Slump has got them...
...from bailing out the culprit pitchers, as Ottie hoped, the hitters have flopped too. Disaster is contagious. If Ott didn't know that 37-year-old Ernie Lombardi couldn't go on hitting home runs right & left, and that 38-year-old Phil Weintraub was a chronic slumper (and a strictly minor-league first baseman), he was whistling alone in the dark...
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