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New Crop of Baseball Players Has Grown Taller

All Things Considered, June 8, 2007 · All but one of the top 30 picks in this week's Major League Baseball draft stand 6 feet or taller. How do they measure up when compared with baseball legends of decades past? Robert Siegel finds that while the average American is about an inch taller than in 1960, the average baseball player seems to be growing much faster than that.

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