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Baseball, an Uncommon card
A baseball is the ball used in the sport of baseball. It consists of a rubber or cork center wrapped in yarn and covered with white natural horsehide or cowhide, or a synthetic composite leather.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 115
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 88,000
Power 115 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Baseball quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Baseball card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
There are 108 stitches on a ______ baseball.
Answer
regulation. There are 108 stitches on a regulation baseball. From the Baseball article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Churro. Churro 220,000 · Alcohol by volume 150,000 · Baseball 88,000 · Barcelona Metro 61,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- A regulation baseball is 9 to 9.25 inches in circumference i.e. 2.86 to 2.94 inches in diameter, with a weight of 5 to 5.25 ounces.
- The leather cover is commonly formed from two saddle-shaped pieces stitched together, typically with red-dyed thread.
- There are 108 stitches on a regulation baseball.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Baseball article was read about 88,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Baseball
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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- BasseterreUncommon · Society · ATK 65 DEF 50
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Baseball (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
