Aug 22 2006
“Little” Leaguer? Are You Kidding?
Are you kidding me?
Aaron Durley towers over the competition at the Little League World Series.
The 13-year-old first baseman for Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, stands an imposing 6-foot-8 and weighs 256 pounds.
“I was standing next to him and I was up to his elbows,” Scott Kingery, a 12-year-old, 4-foot-9 Phoenix shortstop, said after meeting Durley.
How can a 13-year-old possibly be nearly 7 feet tall? How does that happen?
Last year, at the Little League World Series, he was only 6′ 5″. He’s still growing!
Clearly he needs to be a pitcher. Could you imagine being 12, digging in at the plate, looking up to see someone standing on a hill that makes him appear over 7 feet tall, and he is about to throw something at you very hard…
Check out these blogs for more:
- Dhahran Little League Makes The News
- Human Growth Hormone in the Little League World Series?
- Some More On That Incredibly Large Saudi Arabian Child
- Not so Little at the Little League World Series
- More Saudi Little League Baseball
