MLB PLAYER HEIGHT RESEARCH

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 (39 players), 6-07 (122 players), 6-08 (50 players), 6-09 (11 players), 6-10 (7 players) and 6-11 (2 players [fact #3 below]).

Players who listed their official 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 (7 players), 5-05½ (15 players), 5-06½ (46 players), 5-07½ (86 players), 5-08½ (135 players), 5-09½ (177 players), 5-10½ (403 players), 5-11½ (287 players), 6-00½ (100 players), 6-01½ (146 players), 6-02½ (75 players), 6-03½ (32 players), 6-04½ (13 players), 6-05½ (7 players), 6-06½ (1 player) 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. Twenty years later, Rauch had company in the record book—do you know who it was? [Answer]