Historical trends in height, weight, and body mass: Data from U.S. Major League Baseball players, 1869–1983

Onge, Jarron M. Saint; Krueger, Patrick M.; Rogers, Richard G.

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2008.06.008

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“…Our findings for Major League Baseball Players with respect to height, weight and BMI, are in agreement (although slightly higher) with Saint Onge et al [32]. Like those researchers, we also found that heights of players born after WWII increased at a slower rate than those born before the war.…”

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J Androl Gynaecol

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Purported changes in male fertility and testosterone levels over the last 50 years remain controversial. The present study addressed this issue indirectly via a facial metric, the bizygomatic width-to-height (FWH) ratio, which has been shown to be reflective of testosterone levels. FWH ratios were assessed from photographs of Major League Baseball (MLB) players dating back to 1870. There was a progressive increase in FWH ratios over the past 120 years which was independent of height. FWH ratios, weight and BMI increased more after WWII than before. The results do not support an inference, based on declining sperm counts, that testosterone levels have declined.

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“…The will be absent from the remaining bouts. 9 http://sumodb.sumogames.de/Default.aspx table also shows that the BMI in the later period was 5.7 points higher than in the early period, which is in line with other professional sports (Saint Onge et al, 2008). Table 3 compares mean values between domestic Japanese wrestlers and foreign wrestlers.…”

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“…The BMI is calculated from a person's weight and height, and is a reliable indicator of body fatness for adults 6 . In the field of economics, the BMI is generally used to capture the degree of fatness (e.g., Zellner et al, 2004;Chrzanowska et al, 2007;Vignerova et al, 2007;Saint Onge et al, 2008;Yamamura 2012). Although a higher BMI can benefit a sumo wrestler, it also increases the probability of injury, thus lowering performance.…”

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Is body mass human capital in sumo? Outcome of globalization and formation of human capital in Japan

Yamamura

2014

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies

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Sumo wrestling is a traditional fighting sport in Japan and has been popular since the 18th century (the Edo period). Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers' body mass index (BMI) is associated with their win rate and absence rate. Further, the effect of BMI is compared between an early period (before the emergence of foreign wrestlers) and later period (after the emergence of foreign wrestlers). After accounting for endogenous bias using instrumental variables, the key findings are that (1) there is no positive relationship between the BMI and win rate in either the early or later period and (2) there is a positive relationship between the BMI and absence rate in the later period but not in the early period. From the findings in this paper, I make the argument that an increase in the number of immigrants with human capital different from that of domestic labor leads the domestic labor to obtain human capital that does not match its characteristics, thereby reducing the performance of domestic labor.

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“…Secular trend could be followed up in the performance level, as well, as stuctural development of the body and the accelerated maturation could help with improving physical capacity [38]. We also have some published [39,40] and unpublished experience about the existence of positive secular trend among Hungarian athletic children e.g. in basketball, where the body height is the key component in the selection.…”

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Secular trend represents a progressive tendency of changes in the consequtive generations, mostly observed in bodily development and maturation, during growth period or in adult sizes, and also in functional and psychological variables. The magnitude of the differences could depend on the genetic traits of the population and the environmental factors, especially on the level of socio-economical standards. Secular trend changes are characterized by decades, expressed e.g. in cm for body height, in kg for body weight, or month for menarcheal age, etc. to compare changes in different populations.

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Historical trends in height, weight, and body mass: Data from U.S. Major League Baseball players, 1869–1983

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