Dakota Albritton

Dakota "Stilts" Albritton is an American baseball player for the exhibition barnstorming baseball team the Savannah Bananas based in Savannah, Georgia. He is known as the "World’s Tallest Baseball Player" and the "Tallest Pitcher in the World", according to Baseball Reference. Standing at 10-feet 9-inches tall on stilts, Albritton is the most recognized player on the team. and grew up in Ellaville, Georgia, where he attended Schley Middle High School. In a 2025 interview with reporter Tyler Boronski, Albritton said: "Growing up I played baseball my entire life and that was something me and my parents genuinely loved to do every weekend." Albritton helped lead his team to a state title game appearance during his senior year.

After high school, Albritton did several odd jobs building swimming pools, pipe-fitting in a paper mill, repairing vacuum pumps, and working in construction.

Savannah Bananas In an April 2025 interview with 60 Minutes, Albritton told news correspondent Lesley Stahl that his mother had set up a baseball tryout with the Savannah Bananas baseball team and told them he could walk on stilts. "Why’d you do that?" Albritton replied, "I haven’t played ball in two years." His mother told him that the tryout announcement said to "bring your weirdest talent". "[We were] looking for the most talented and entertaining players in the world," co-owner of the Savannah Bananas, Jesse Cole said, regarding the tryouts. Albritton signed on with the Savannah Bananas in 2021 when he was 20 years old. "I’m swinging a 33-inch 30-ounce baseball bat," explains Albritton, "That means the pitcher has to throw it from my knees to my numbers, and my real knees, not the stilt knees."