Baseball player weights not included (due to chart size constraints) on the chart above include one sixty-five pound player [see fact #3 below], thirteen 120-129 pound players, sixty-three 240-249 pound players, twenty-six 250-259 pound players, seven 260-269 pound players, five 270-279 pound player, one 295 pound player [see fact #3 below] and one 315 pound player (see fact #3 below). Here are more charts that might interest you:
The "Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball" (1997) by Jonathan Fraser Light has an entire section dedicated to Fat and Weight (pg 250); here are some entries:
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster (to / on David Letterman)
"Foxx is, in his own estimation, 12 pounds overweight at 212, and now he has double chins along with his Double X's." - The Stars and Stripes (1944)
"I only eat two meals a day, I just like snacks." - Willie Horton (responding to a question about his weight gain in Spring Training)
"Mr. President (Dwight Eisenhower), I was on a diet for 25 years. Now that I'm makin' some money, I'm makin' sure that I eat enough to make up for the lean years." - Dizzy Dean (while golfing with the President & answering why he weighed nearly 300 pounds.)
"Watching Fernando Valenzuela force himself into a Los Angeles Dodgers uniform is something like seeing Kate Smith struggling to fit into a pair of Brook Shields designer jeans." - Sports H.G. Reza
Source: The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball (1997, Jonathan Fraser Light)
The lightest player in Major League history was Eddie Gaedel who only weighed sixty-five pounds and took the field for one game on August 19, 1951. The heaviest player in Major League history was Jumbo Brown who weighed two-hundred ninety-five pounds and played from 1925 through 1941 — until 2005 when Walter Young took that record from him when he debuted at three-hundred fifteen pounds.
