Thread: Hey Dan! MATTY is only 5 foot 8 bro!
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Old 08-10-2002, 11:45 AM
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Default Hey Dan! MATTY is only 5 foot 8 bro!
Posted By: Dan Mathewson

Too Funny, Brian. Yeah, they did trim the crap outta this one. Matty's virtually a dwarf. Too bad for the guy who was so tall and quite a presence in his day.

For those not familiar with Christy's true stats, he was 6'2" and 195#. Not a small fellow in his day. But, very soft spoken and pretty gentle in nature and character, unless you were unfortunate enough to be a batter facing one of his fadeaways. Matty still holds at least one MLB record, now almost 100 years old, that will probably never be broken...pretty damm cool.

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