How tall was Mickey Mantle?

Mickey Mantle is commonly listed at 5 ft 11 in (180 cm).

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Mickey Mantle’s 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) is a little above average for a US man: about 74 in 100 US men are shorter.

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Mickey Mantle beside others

Mickey Mantle is in the middle of the 26 baseball players we have heights for: Randy Johnson (6 ft 10 in) stands 11 in (28.3 cm) taller and Yogi Berra (5 ft 7 in) is 4 in (10 cm) shorter.

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5 ft 11 in (180 cm)

A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

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Mickey Mantle, 5 ft 11 in (180 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)