You Need to Follow Ken Griffey Jr. on Instagram

Baseball legend Ken Griffey Jr. joined Instagram last month, and his #ThrowbackThursday photos are, in a word, dope.

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They’re dope because they actually meet the #TBT criteria. I don’t know if an official #TBT criteria exists, but I know that the dozens of photos taken last weekend (!!!) and the photoshopped images of a grown Rihanna posing with Tupac in my timeline do not qualify.

Griffey is giving us vintage and fuzzy nostalgic feelings. Peep the hair:

Take a look at Mom’s shoulder pads. One of them is bedazzled:

This could have easily been the cover image for the soundtrack of any famous early ’90s ‘hood movie.

Follow him at @therealkengriffeyjr.

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