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Uncommon card · History
Branch Rickey, an Uncommon card
Wesley Branch Rickey was an American professional baseball catcher, manager, sports executive, and team owner.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 161 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Branch Rickey quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Branch Rickey card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was posthumously elected to the ______ Hall of Fame in 1967.
Answer
Baseball. He was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967. From the Branch Rickey article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Literacy. Literacy 93 · Transcranial magnetic stimulation 86 · Branch Rickey 82 · Edwin Hubble 76 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- He was instrumental in breaking the baseball color line by signing black player Jackie Robinson.
- He also created the framework for the modern minor league farm system, encouraged the major leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed Continental League, introduced the batting helmet, and created the standard 20-80 scouting scale.
- He was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Branch Rickey article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Branch Rickey
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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The cards just above and just below Branch Rickey in the power ranking, all domains together.
- JunkUncommon · Science · ATK 76 DEF 85
- LiteracyUncommon · Society · ATK 93 DEF 68
- Transcranial magnetic stimulationUncommon · Science · ATK 86 DEF 75
- Bryce Canyon National ParkUncommon · Nature · ATK 73 DEF 88
- Bulletproof vestUncommon · History · ATK 84 DEF 77
- Eight BannersUncommon · History · ATK 77 DEF 84
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Branch Rickey (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : St. Louis Cardinals - 1941 Team Issue, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
