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Afro-centric

I have noticed a recent resurgence in interest on the topic of a specific ballplayer hairstyle from the '70s. Discussion of the Afro never really goes away. Wherever there are fans of the greatest decade of baseball ever played, the Afro will eventually come up in conversation. How can it not? It was so apparent . I applaud discussions of Afro-wearing ballplayers. There needs to be more of them as far as I am concerned. So I am glad that Wrigley Wax brought up Jose Cardenal's huge stack of hair. And I am glad that The Phillies Room furthered the discussion. Cardenal really may have had the second-biggest Afro of the 1970s. I haven't done a scientific study or anything, but all you have to do is look at his cards to come to that conclusion. It was bigger than Bake McBride's. Bigger than Garry Maddox's. But, the biggest Afro, as everyone knows, belonged to this player, whose locks are forever immortalized: Sorry, Anthony , it's the only one of these I own....