“I Shouldn’t be Complaining”: Size 17 Aaron Judge Was Once Humbled by Staggering Shaquille O’Neal Fact While Recalling a Major Struggles

Published 02/07/2023, 10:00 AM EST

6 feet 7 inches tall, Aaron Judge is amongst the tallest players in modern-day baseball. Now imagine this giant-sized power-hitter looking like just another regular person. That’s exactly what happened when Aaron Judge stood next to 7’1 Shaquille O Neal. Akin to both their height, while Shaq’s shoe size is 22, Aaron Judge’s size is a “meagre” 17. Meagre indeed…

After finding out the shoe size of Shaq, and Kevin Durant, Aaron Judge strongly believed that he should stop complaining about the problems he faced while shopping for shoes. But that didn’t take away his massive mall dilemma, which rendered every Judge trip to the mall useless.

Despite a relatively “smaller” shoe size, Judge still couldn’t escape this mall problem

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Back in 2022, Aaron Judge once chose to go shoe shopping with Complex’s Joe La Puma in the Big Apple. As the duo continued shoe shopping, and Aaron Judge found out the shoe sizes of Shaq and Durant, he believed that he should immediately stop complaining.

Judge said, “Man I shouldn’t be complaining after you name those sizes [Shaq 22, Durant 18].”

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However, he eventually moved to speak about the troubles he faced inside a mall when he went shoe shopping with his friends because of his shoe size. Judge narrated, “It made it tough going to the mall. You’re picking out some shoes, all your boys are picking out ‘I’m going to get these ones, I’m going to get the 11.’ This and that. I’m like, what’s the biggest size you got? 14? All right, I’ll catch you outside.”

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Shaquille O Neil once made Aaron Judge look small

During the 2021 Super Bowl, when Aaron Judge and Shaquille O Neil met, the future AL MVP was made to look like a pedestrian. 7’1 tall Shaq completely overpowered the tallest MLB player to smash over 50 homers in a season.

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Mohsin Baldiwala is an MLB author for EssentiallySports. He is pursuing his BBA degree, specializing in Communications & Media with a Public Policy minor. Along with his keen interest in politics and questions about society, he has written multiple research papers about a variety of topics, ranging from stand-up comedy to the Indian Education System.

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Gideon Mathson

“I Shouldn’t be Complaining”: Size 17 Aaron Judge Was Once Humbled by Staggering Shaquille O’Neal Fact While Recalling a Major Struggles

Despite a relatively “smaller” shoe size, Judge still couldn’t escape this mall problem

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