How do I delete contacts from the address book?

Purchased a new MacBook Pro and iphone4 yesterday.  The phone has several hundred contacts that I no longer need.  How do I deleted the contacts that I don't need anylonger from the address book on my MacBook?  There are still several hundred that I need to keep.  I don't see an easy way to delete them on the computor.  I can't imagine that I'd have to go through one by one on my iphone.........seriously?

On the MBpro, click on the card to delete or mark several in a row by holding Shift down/up arrow.  Then hit the delete key on the keyboard.
Regards,
Captfred

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