A Slump Buster is a running joke inside of baseball locker rooms. It is the only known remedy to break a slump. Baseball players are very superstitious people. Some guys take Slump Busting more serious than others. When you are fighting for a job in the minor leagues and its been a long season... anyway, you get the point.

During Spring Training with the Mets in 2002, we had a talent show at the end of camp: sort of a party to celebrate the new season. Everybody was excited to get out and play in games that counted. I drew up this skit to perform. The skit depicted an "infomercial" that would play late at night and be seen by insomnia stricken ball players who couldn't sleep because of their most recent hitting woes. The infomercial had a Fred McGriff- like figure endorsing this thing called a Slump Buster (probably by now most of you know of the infamous Mark Grace interview on the Jim Rome Show). The skit was a crack up. There were about 8 guys or so in the skit, most notably David Wright in his first spring training. There was a cash prize for first place and with the money I made shirts for the guys that participated. The shirts were so popular that everyone in the farm system wanted one and next thing we knew we were moving them to guys on all the teams, selling them in the locker rooms during season.

From that single box of shirts in 2002, Slump Buster now has an official retailer to professional baseball in the Paul Pryor Co. It is a modest operation but there is still something about the shirt. Slumps happens all the time in all performance situations in life. People relate to slumps and the desperate yet fun mindset of Slump Busting. You will love the reaction you get wearing this label. And you never know when you might need to bust out yourself!

-Slump Buster and former AAA catcher

Slump buster Inc. Is a baseball company specializing in addressing the tastes and standards of the professional ball player.