How to Beat the Odds
Can you be short and a professional athlete? Yes, you can
Don’t you just love Jose Altuve?
If you didn’t know, he’s a Major League Baseball player and hits the field (and the ball) for the Houston Astros.
He’s also 5 foot 6 inches tall.
You read that right. He’s just a little guy. Not unlike New York Yankee Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra and current Yankee pitcher Marcus Stroman, who were both 5 feet 7 inches tall.
All of current or past stars of Major League Baseball.
This is in stark contrast to some of the other players on the field who are on the other end of the spectrum: 6-foot-8 Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Tyler Glasnow, 6-foot-8 Boston Red Sox pitcher Chris Martin and 6-foot-7 Yankee slugger Aaron Judge.
If you see one of these tall guys standing on a base next to one of the shorter (or even more average-sized) players they look like giants.
Then there are some startlingly short basketball players. Startling because it’s basketball!
Muggsy Bogues is 5 feet 3 inches, who played from 1987–2001, was the shortest player ever in the National Basketball Association. Former NBA players Greg Grant is 5 feet 7 inches, and Earl Boykins measures in at 5 feet 5 inches
