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Not short on status

By Jeff Merron
Page 2

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Even though Cardinals shortstop David Eckstein came up a little, um, short in the Cards' 12-inning 2-1 win over the Pirates Tuesday (he went 0-for-6), he's still an inspiration to plenty of vertically challenged folks (such as this scribe). Wearing his spikes, he's all of 5-foot-7 – officially. And unfortunately, he's not good enough to make baseball's all-short team. Here's how we figured it: We went post-World War II – too many great Wee Willie's in baseball's early days, back when ...

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