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Carl Erskine, an Uncommon card
Carl Daniel Erskine, nicknamed "Oisk", was an American professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers from 1948 through 1959.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 105
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 105 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Carl Erskine quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Carl Erskine card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was an All-Star the following ______.
Answer
season. He was an All-Star the following season. From the Carl Erskine article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He was a pitching mainstay on Dodger teams which won five National League pennants and the ____ World Series.
Answer
1950s. He was a pitching mainstay on Dodger teams which won five National League pennants and the 1955 World Series. From the Carl Erskine article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cliff Drysdale. Cliff Drysdale 67 · Carl Erskine 63 · Greenwood Lake, New York 60 · Adam Osborne 57 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 a pitching mainstay on Dodger teams which won five National League pennants and the 1955 World Series.
- During the 1953 season, Erskine won 20 games and set a World Series record with 14 strikeouts in a single game.
- He was an All-Star the following season.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Carl Erskine article was read about 17,000 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 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Carl Erskine
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, Carl Erskine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bowman Gum, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
