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Alexander Cartwright, an Uncommon card
Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. was a founding member of the New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club in the 1840s.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 55
- Power
- 118
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 26,000
Power 118 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Alexander Cartwright quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alexander Cartwright card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
However, later research called this ______ into question.
Answer
scenario. However, later research called this scenario into question. From the Alexander Cartwright article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. was a founding member of the New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club in the ____s.
Answer
1840s. Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. was a founding member of the New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club in the 1840s. From the Alexander Cartwright article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Although he was an inductee of the Baseball Hall of Fame and he was sometimes referred to as a "father of baseball", the importance of his role in the development of the game may have been exaggerated.
- The rules of the modern game were long considered to have been based on the Knickerbocker Rules developed in 1845 by Cartwright and a committee from the Knickerbockers.
- However, later research called this scenario into question.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alexander Cartwright article was read about 26,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 55: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Alexander Cartwright
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alexander Cartwright (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
