49 Responses to “Most Career HR, Listed Height 5′ 6″ Or Less”

1. Matthew Glidden Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 10:29 pm

   Wow, more HOFers than I expected on that list, even leaving aside Maranville. Wonder how the list looks if you go with 6'6" and OVER?

2. josh blue Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 10:32 pm

   Pedroia should be on this list. i know he is isted as 5'7 or 5'8, but cmon....

3. Greg Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 10:41 pm

   #1, Kingman is probably tops

4. Jick Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 11:13 pm

   Looks like Billy Hamilton and Dummy Hoy move into a tie for 7th place if you include years before 1901.

   I'm highly amused to see Rafael Belliard in the top fifty of a home run list, no matter what the other qualifiers are.

5. DavidRF Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 11:13 pm

   Guys with 19th century playing time include...

   Tommy Leach - 63
   Billy Hamilton - 40
   Dummy Hoy - 40
   Charlie Duffee - 35
   Willie Keeler - 33

6. kds Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 11:15 pm

   Little Joe hit out 268. You know everybody that short lies about his height.

7. DavidRF Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 11:18 pm

   @3

   HR's 6'6" or taller:

   Dave Winfield - 462
   Dave Kingman - 442
   Frank Howard - 382
   Adam Dunn - 354
   Darryl Strawberry - 335
   Richie Sexson - 306
   Tony Clark - 254
   ... then a big dropoff
   Corey Hart 98
   Walt Bond 41

8. Hartvig Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 11:20 pm

   #6 My second thought, right after "I'll bet Hack Wilson is near the top" was "How tall was Joe Morgan?" Missed it by that much, as Maxwell Smart would say.

   And I love any lists that remind me of Walt "No neck" Williams.

9. birtelcom Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 11:21 pm

   #1 and #3: Winfield, not Kingman has the most homers among players listed at 6'6" or taller. But Adam Dunn is threateting Top 10:
   Dave Winfield 465
   Dave Kingman 442
   Frank Howard 382
   Adam Dunn 354
   Darryl Strawberry 335
   Richie Sexson 306
   Tony Clark 251
   Corey Hart 98
   Walt Bond 41
   Billy Ashley 28

10. birtelcom Says:
    January 29th, 2011 at 11:22 pm

    sorry, David @7, my post went out as yours came in.

11. Frank Clingenpeel Says:
    January 29th, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    I was wondering which 6'6"+ players had the lowest HR/AB ratio -- and the most stolen bases.

12. RUDY S Says:
    January 29th, 2011 at 11:30 pm

    How about Hack Wilson with more than 4x the runner ups' total!

13. Richard Chester Says:
    January 29th, 2011 at 11:47 pm

    Only 9 players on the list played past 1950.

14. Frank Reich Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 12:08 am

    #11 That would be:
    Darryl Strawberry: 16.2 AB/HR with 221 SB
    and
    Dave Winfield: 23.7 AB/HR with 223 SB

    No others have at least 100 HR and 100 SB

15. Imbroglio21 Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 12:10 am

    @11

    I had to get the HR/AB from another source, so those will be HR/100PA (ascending), with a minimum of 500 career PAs, because the initial query spit out too many zeroes.

    HEIGHT >= 78
    HR/100 PA HR/PA
    1 Parson Nicholson 0,71
    2 Howie Schultz 1,41
    3 Brennan Boesch 2,73
    4 Walt Bond 3,06
    5 Ron Jackson 3,18
    6 Corey Hart 3,73
    7 Dave Winfield 3,76
    8 Billy Ashley 4,07
    9 Tony Clark 4,90
    10 Frank Howard 5,20

    HEIGHT >= 78
    STOLEN BASES SB
    1 Dave Winfield 223
    2 Darryl Strawberry 221
    3 Dave Kingman 85
    4 Corey Hart 71
    5 Adam Dunn 59
    6 Parson Nicholson 58
    7 Howie Schultz 15
    8 Richie Sexson 14
    9 Walt Bond 10
    10 Frank Howard 8

16. Greg Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 12:24 am

    I forgot Winfield was that tall

17. Greg Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 12:25 am

    There was a time when Kingman led all HOF eligible players with most HR and not in the HOF. Steroids/PEDs helped him there.

18. Mike S. Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 1:00 am

    One amazing piece of trivia: How many of you remember that Freddie Patek, all 5'4" of him, once hit 3 HR in the same game! Yup. June 20, 1980 at Fenway. Amazingly, after that game, he hit just one other HR the rest of his career.

19. Terry Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 1:12 am

    I think there's a mistake at the website here, regarding former White Sox shortstop Harry Chappas. I remember Chappas being 5'3", not 5'7". He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, one spring, Chappas had one career homerun.

20. Mike Felber Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 1:15 am

    I do not think Morgan was under 5'7". Many guys lie about their height, effectively giving their height with shoes. I'll bet it is more common to try to add more height via claiming the round # of 6.'

21. Kingturtle Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 1:22 am

    Yogi Berra hit more. and they list him as 5'7", but that was a stretch.

22. mccombe35 Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 1:23 am

    @7

    Big Hurt just missed it being listed at 6'5".....

23. mccombe35 Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 1:31 am

    Also,

    So Donnie Sadler is the only player 5'6" or under to hit a HR in the last 10 years?

24. Imbroglio21 Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 3:27 am

    It seems so.

    http://bbref.com/pi/shareit/Um8Jh

25. dodgerdave Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 3:55 am

    I remember a player named Chad Fonville who was 5'6" and played for the Dodgers a number of years ago. He never hit a home run. I wonder how many of those players on that list have only inside-the-park home runs.

26. Kahuna Tuna Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 11:16 am

    As his page sponsor notes, Dutch Zwilling (#9 on the list) was "Not only the last man (alphabetically) to play major league baseball, but also the all-time HR leader for the short-lived Federal League."

27. Richard Chester Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 11:19 am

    @25

    There was a high percentage of inside-the-park home runs prior to 1920 so I would not be surprised if many of the players with just a few homers had all inside-the-park homers. Tommy Leach had 49.

    An indication of the high percentage is the fact that Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Honus Wagner all had at least 33% of their homers as inside-the park.

28. MikeD Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 7:12 pm

    I've stood next to Joe Morgan. Granted, he was about 60 so he might have shrunk just a bit since his playing days, but I don't think he was 5'7." Nothing scientific here, but he had to be close.

    Yogi Berra is also listed at 5'7." He was considered short, which is why some teams didn't want to give him a shot. (Interesting that the Yankees singed both Rizzuto and Berra, two vertically challenged players that other lesser teams passed on.) He's in his 80s and has definately shrunk since his playing days, but my guess is he wasn't 5'7" if that's what he was listed at.

    Yet, Steve post did note this was about players "listed" at 5'6" or shorter, so no way to tell which ones added some height.

29. MadDoc Says:
    January 31st, 2011 at 8:10 am

    What did you have against WIlliam Ellsworth "Dummy" Hoy? He stands at 5'4" to 5'5" and no higher. (Proof of his heights from a 1898 documents)

30. ART B Says:
    January 31st, 2011 at 4:48 pm

    Hack Wilson was amazing. He is listed as 5'6", 190 pounds and had a huge chest and massive arms. He leld the National League single season HR record for over 60 years and still holds the all time single season RBI record. Sadly, he was a hopeless alcoholic.

31. topper009 Says:
    February 1st, 2011 at 1:58 am

    Yogi Berra was only 4'18"

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39. Joseph Says:
    February 1st, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    I did some random searches on the number of players under 5 feet 6 inches at various times. I counted them if they made one PA:

    1901-1905: 42

    1921-1925: 27

    1951-1955: 8

    2001-2005: 1

    So, it's not a surprise to see the old time players dominating the list.

    By way of comparison, players at least 6 feet:

    1901-1905: 216

    2001-2005: 1456

    Players at least 6 feet 2 inches:

    1901-1905: 57

    2001-2005: 881

    Players at least 6 feet 5 inches:

    1901-1905: 4 (they combined for zero HR's in about 200 plate appearances and only one of them batted over .200 AVG.)

    2001-2005: 148

    The tallest guy ever to make a plate appearance seems to be the current player, pitcher Jon Rauch. He's 6 feet 11 inches. He's hit one HR.

40. John Autin Says:
    February 1st, 2011 at 3:03 pm

    @19, Terry -- According to his B-R Bullpen page:
    "Harry Chappas got attention because he was listed as 5'3" (he was really 5'6")...."

    Of course, that doesn't explain why he's listed at 5'7" on his B-R player page.

41. John Autin Says:
    February 1st, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    In the expansion era (1961-present), there have been only 4 players 5'5" or less (per B-R).

    Two of them played for the expansion Angels in 1961: OF Albie Pearson and SS Fritz Brickell.

    Brickell was just a scrub, but Pearson was a bit of a star: He was the 1958 AL Rookie of the Year with Washington (it was a very weak rookie crop); and from 1961-63, Pearson averaged 100 Runs (leading the AL in '62), a .392 OBP (ranking 4th in '61 and 2nd in '63). Pearson posted a .370 OBP in '65 (the AL OBP was .317), but he was out of the game a year later due to chronic back problems.

42. John Autin Says:
    February 1st, 2011 at 3:36 pm

    P.S. In 1956, Albie Pearson won the Texas League (AA) batting title at .371 (27 points above the #2 man). He also recorded 21 OF assists that year, 28 the next year -- perhaps a case of everyone trying to take the extra base on him?

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