At Long Last - A Growth Spurt!!

That's wonderful! How tall is he?

He's now five-seven-and-a-half.

I'm 15 and nothing yet

I was the starting center in 7th and 8th grade in basketball (6ft tall). Senior year in high school - point guard (still 6ft tall). My mom was under 5ft, had uncles over 6ft 6 - who knows - play hard and have fun!!!

It is totally a **** shoot. I was stagnant myself from about 7th grade until I was 19. NINETEEN!! At age 19, I added the final couple of inches, and a very unexpected broadening of the shoulders and chest. Hadn't touched a weight, but when I returned to college for Soph year, everyone asked me where I'd been working out. The body is a weird thing and any charts and graphs for growth are mere approximations with a WIDE margin for 'error'.

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Originally posted by BaseballsMyGame:
I'm 15 and nothing yet

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Hey -- still having the problems with you calves? or is it getting better?

you can grow up til about 21, i grew about 2 1/2" when 19, maybe Army food and a lot of running helped though.

My first cousin graduated high school as the shortest guy in his class at around 5'5". At his college graduation he was 6'4". You never know, you just never know.

Check out this site, it has a graph of all MLB players heights from 1786 to 2003.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/charts/heights/heights.shtml

Thanks,

I like the quote attributed to the dimunitive Freddy Patek, formerly of the Royals.

"I'd rather be the shortest player in the Majors than the tallest player in the minors." - Freddie Patek

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Originally posted by Fanatic:

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Originally posted by BaseballsMyGame:
I'm 15 and nothing yet

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Hey -- still having the problems with you calves? or is it getting better?

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It seems to have gotten better on its own.

David Robinson, top 50 NBA players of all time, entered Naval Academy at 6'5" (Max height allowed). David graduated 7'2".

Dennis Rodman, bad boy of NBA, graduated HS at 5'10" but played NBA at 6'8".

Krakatoa- congrats, my son, 14 and 7 months has finally started his growth spurt as well. Ended summer ball at 5'3" and now is 5'5".

I love the Freddy Patek quote!

All right, looks like we've got some hormones on the move! It would be great to see one of those 8-inches-in-a-year spurts, but what's happening now is at least promising! It's funny, a few weeks ago I was in the kitchen doing something and saw someone coming into the room out the corner of my eye, thinking "Who's this stranger?" Turned to find my son cruising in......

...and right behind that little increase in hormones, increase in appetite, increase in shoe size, another little cute creature will appear on the scene, making you search instantly for a hormone antidote..................