<p>When is the last time a 5’-6 1/2" baseball player got MVP for the World Series? </p>
<p>What a story! <a href=“http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=2612767&page=1[/url]”>http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=2612767&page=1</a></p>
<p>cheers,
I’ll see your 5’6 1/2" and raise you! (Or is that lower you? ) 
In 1952 Bobby Shantz, a 5’6" pitcher for Philadelphia, won the MVP for the regular season. And no, I don’t actually remember it!</p>
<p>Considering the fact that none of my three boys is going to be even remotely tall, I have to cheer on this obviously faboozala player!!! WOO HOO!!!</p>
<p>I love this guy! H and I cheered for him when he played for the Angels. Congrats to him. What a hard worker, not to mention talented.</p>
<p>When Eckstein played for the Angels, they listed him as 5’-6 1/2" but since he’s been at Busch Stadium he’s grown to 5’ 7" …</p>
<p>I remember hearing an interview with him where I think he laughingly said that even 5 ’ 6 1/2 " was a bit of an exaggeration. The minute a player gets a millimeter over a particular inch, they round up to the next inch :).</p>
<p>I know basketball players are measured in their shoes…</p>
<p>Cheers: I would not have pegged you for a baseball fan — the players don’t wear skimpy shorts after all.</p>
<p>Eck has long been one of our favorite players since we gave up on the Dodgers (I will never forgive them for trading Lo Duca) and shifted allegiance to the Angels, happily just before their 2002 run to the World Series. It bugged me that the Angels let him go, but whenever the Cards were playing and I happened to be channel surfing, I would pause to see if Eck was coming up. There’s just something about how he stands crowding the plate, choked up on the bat, like an eager 12-year-old. He’s not always perfect, obviously, but when the mojo is working, it is uncanny to see how he gets the most improbable hits. He has mastered something about making contact, blooping them into the short infield, hitting 'em where they ain’t. Love to watch him.</p>
<p>just read the funniest thing about David Eckstein. Apparently he was named to the Jewish All-American team when he played baseball in college at Florida. Unfortunately, David Eckstein is not Jewish…</p>
<p>I’m a third generation baseball fan, jazzy. One of the all-time worst players personally but not a bad coach. S1 was a decent pitcher and first baseman back in the day…</p>
<p>The ball doesn’t know how tall you are.</p>
<p>Yea Cardinals!!! Yea Eckstein!!! Everyone in St. Louis has loved David Eckstein since he’s been on the team!! And I have heard more than a few times that he IS Jewish, like Sandy Koufax and very few others. Doesn’t matter what religion, etc.–just a great guy all around from what I’ve heard and read!!</p>