title: Lefties are still a little shorter.
abstract: Heights and weights of right- and left-handed major league baseball pitchers (N=5780) were analyzed, adjusted for birth year. Right-handed pitchers were about 1.6 cm taller and 1.9 kg heavier than left-handed pitchers. The results corroborated other studies and suggest body size is related to handedness, although the average difference in height between right- and left-handed pitchers was very small.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA. eabel@wayne.edu
authors.forename: Ernest L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Abel
authors.forename: Michael L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Kruger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001484:Baseball / Q000523:psychology*; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014481:United States