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Gulbis, like Brands, took the high-risk approach, and he, like Brands, has the height and leverage to deal effectively with Nadal's trademark topspin that can kick above the shoulders of shorter men, including Roger Federer.
His greatest advantage in the hard-hitting world of Twenty20 is a 6ft 5in frame that allows him to get his bat to balls that would be out of the reach of shorter men.
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Call them whatever you please, and chances are you won't get called on it, for making fun of short men is one of the last acceptable prejudices.
Just a few weeks ago, an interesting and lengthy paper by a pair of sociologists from New York University made a lot of noise in what I suppose would these days be called the community of short men - a community to which, as it happens, I rather inarguably, one might say entirely, belong.
On the flipside, some people need to overcome the obstacle of judging the abilities of short men based on their height when it's completely unrelated.
To see how it all shakes out, I spoke with a number of short men to see if their life experiences squared with the cold numbers.
There are a handful of short men in the entertainment industry, but most of them lie about their height through subterfuge and cinema trickery; those who are honest about their stature have either made it part of their personal brand or are so fucking good that it doesn't matter.
Ty Cobb was famous for his abuse; the Yanks' Billy Martin had the worst case of short man's disease in baseball; Earl Weaver, of the Orioles, made an ass of himself every time he twisted the bill of his cap and kicked dirt all over an umpire's shoes — and that was rather often.
Ty Cobb was famous for his abuse; the Yanks' Billy Martin had the worst case of short man's disease in baseball; Earl Weaver, of the Orioles, made an ass of himself every time he twisted the bill of his cap and kicked dirt all over an umpire's shoes and that was rather often.
It is the ideological inverse of Short Man syndrome.
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