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Major League Baseball Player Height Chart by Baseball Almanac
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Major League Baseball Player Height Chart

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive chart of ballplayer heights. Important notes about the chart: the most common heights are included (lesser common heights are in the fast facts) and the player's with ½ heights have been excluded (a breakdown of their exact numbers are in the fast facts as well).

"I'd rather be the shortest player in the Majors than the tallest player in the minors." - Freddie Patek in The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball (1999)
Major League Baseball Player Height Chart

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Baseball player heights not included (due to chart size constraints) on the baseball chart above include 3-07 (1 player [fact #3 below]), 5-03 (10 players), 5-04 (19 players), 5-05 (33 players), 6-07 (81 players), 6-08 (25 players), 6-09 (5 players), 6-10 (5 players) and 6-11 (1 player [fact #3 below]).

Players who listed their major league height with a ½ have been excluded from the baseball chart above for accuracy (rounding either direction would not have been correct). Their totals are as follows: 5-03½ (2 players), 5-04½ (9 players), 5-05½ (14 players), 5-06½ (49 players), 5-07½ (90 players), 5-08½ (143 players), 5-09½ (188 players), 5-10½ (427 players), 5-11½ (314 players), 6-00½ (109 players), 6-01½ (174 players), 6-02½ (86 players), 6-03½ (43 players), 6-04½ (15 players), 6-05½ (9 players), 6-06½ (3 players) and 6-07½ (1 player).

The shortest player in Major League history was Eddie Gaedel (three-feet seven inches) who took for the field for one game on August 19, 1951. The tallest player in Major League history was Jon Rauch (six-feet eleven inches) who first took the field on April 2, 2002.

       

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