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Bugs and Cranks: ‘Fro Sho’: Baseball’s Best Afros

From the O’s to Jerry O...wasn’t Ross Grimsley’s entrance song ‘Afro Twist Time (Um Gow Wow)’?

1B — Eddie Murray

As if a great ‘fro weren’t enough, Murray went ahead and provided baseball with, perhaps, the best chops of all-time as well. Take one look at Murray in the late ’70s and early ’80s and tell me he didn’t look like Jules from Pulp Fiction. Go ahead, I dare you. That’s why he was so surly with the media all those years — some reporter asked for a foot massage and he made like Caine from Kung Fu and just walked the earth.

Repoz Posted: July 19, 2007 at 01:26 PM | 21 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. asinwreck Posted: July 19, 2007 at 01:40 PM (#2446230)

The day I found out Oscar Gamble was going bald was a sad day.

2. ellsbury my heart at wounded knee Posted: July 19, 2007 at 01:44 PM (#2446233)

Coco Crisp is developing a nice afro.

3. Designated Sitter (GGC) Posted: July 19, 2007 at 01:55 PM (#2446240)

My connection is balky today. Does he mention Earl Weaver's perm?

4. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: July 19, 2007 at 02:07 PM (#2446247)

Does he mention Earl Weaver's perm?

No, but Don Sutton gets a well-deserved shout.

5. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: July 19, 2007 at 02:16 PM (#2446250)

none of them can touch Darnell Hillman

(in fact, MLB can't touch the ABA when it comes to Afros--men against the boys)

6. Crispix Attacks Posted: July 19, 2007 at 02:18 PM (#2446254)

Ha, this is great, especially the Don Sutton picture. But there is no excuse for mentioning some guys and then not having photos. In fact, this is the sort of article that should be just an excuse for photos.

I would like to hear about recent candidates as well. Including those in the Indians rotation.

7. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: July 19, 2007 at 02:19 PM (#2446256)

them were the days

8. Designated Sitter (GGC) Posted: July 19, 2007 at 02:25 PM (#2446266)

Damn, jmac66, that ABA page is hilaripus. The director of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat wants that outfit back, Coach Brown.

Also, Jose Cardenal deserves a shoutout.

9. The cushions are crowded for Edmundo

Posted: July 19, 2007 at 02:35 PM (#2446286)

I loved the 'fro, 'burns and goatee of Artis Gilmore. At 7'2" and long arms, he was the most intimidating player from the 70s. The ABA was the coolest league of all time.

10. Pat Rapper's Delight Posted: July 19, 2007 at 02:39 PM (#2446290)

You know you got a big fro when it doesn't all fit in the picture.

11. no neck Posted: July 19, 2007 at 02:57 PM (#2446306)

I second the A-train.

12. Eugene Freedman

Posted: July 19, 2007 at 03:51 PM (#2446390)

http://www.skiltech.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/image49lg.jpg

Eddie! Eddie! Eddie!

13. Rich Rifkin I Posted: July 19, 2007 at 04:04 PM (#2446404)

CF — Oscar Gamble. There’s simply no comparison. It’s not even close. The owner of baseball’s greatest afro is, was, and ever shall be Oscar Charles Gamble.

This is far too limited. Gamble's fro was not only the greatest fro in the world of athletics, it was the greatest fro in the history of the known world.

Jewfro — Alex Jacob. The Jewfro Jacob was sporting at this year's WSOP vaulted the young poker player into elite Jewfro status.

As good as Alex Jacob's Jewfro was, it doesn't really compare with this one.

14. Jay Z Posted: July 19, 2007 at 07:07 PM (#2446612)

Jewfro - I always thought term was Isro.

15. The cushions are crowded for Edmundo

Posted: July 19, 2007 at 07:11 PM (#2446617)

As good as Alex Jacob's Jewfro was, it doesn't really compare with this one.

That looks like a failed Sideshow Bob-do.

16. The Woody Allen of Gangsta Rap Posted: July 19, 2007 at 08:05 PM (#2446700)

As good as Alex Jacob's Jewfro was, it doesn't really compare with this one.

Spector is disqualified for wearing a wig.

17. gef the talking mongoose Posted: July 19, 2007 at 10:58 PM (#2446908)

none of them can touch Darnell Hillman

When I attended the ABA Reunion in Indianapolis in 8/97, I paid to have Darnell autograph something like 5 vintage 8x10s showing him in all his Afro-tastic glory -- 1 to keep, of course, & 4 to give friends back in the newsroom in Little Rock.

The '97 edition of Darnell (who I think owned a car dealership or something) had quite conservative hair. So did present-day Artis Gilmore &, of course, Dr J. *sigh*

If memory serves, another of my favorite ABA players, James Silas, at least had cornrows or something.

18. Johnny B. Wong Posted: July 19, 2007 at 11:10 PM (#2446923)

Oscar Gamble immediately came to mind.

It's not even close.

19. buddy Posted: July 19, 2007 at 11:14 PM (#2446930)

that's what i love about these threads. you just never know how a conversation will get going in some wonderfully twisted way. here's a couple more fun ones.

http://passionweiss.blogspot.com/2007/03/hairstyles-of-70s-guide-to-10-of.html

20. willcarrolldoesnotsuk Posted: July 20, 2007 at 01:29 AM (#2447114)

Fro? No.

Baseball? No.

But, the greatest hairdo ever? Hell, yeah.

21. nick swisher hygiene Posted: July 20, 2007 at 01:34 AM (#2447125)

I picked this handle long before this thread was posted......

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