How tall was Ty Cobb?

Ty Cobb is commonly listed at 6 ft 1 in (185 cm).

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Ty Cobb’s 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) is tall for a US man: about 90 in 100 US men are shorter.

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Ty Cobb beside others

Ty Cobb is in the middle of the 26 baseball players we have heights for: Randy Johnson (6 ft 10 in) stands 9 in (23.3 cm) taller and Yogi Berra (5 ft 7 in) is 6 in (15 cm) shorter.

Also listed at 6 ft 1 in: Bryce Harper.

Hank Aaron: 6 ft 0 in (183 cm), 1 in (2 cm) shorter than Ty Cobb.
Babe Ruth: 6 ft 2 in (188 cm), 1 in (3 cm) taller than Ty Cobb.

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6 ft 1 in (185 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.

Photo: International Film Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Ty Cobb, 6 ft 1 in (185 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)