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Uncommon card · History
Elston Howard, an Uncommon card
Elston Gene Howard was an American professional baseball player who was a catcher and a left fielder.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 120
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 120 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Elston Howard quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Elston Howard card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Howard served on the Yankees' ______ staff from 1969 to 1979.
Answer
coaching. Howard served on the Yankees' coaching staff from 1969 to 1979. From the Elston Howard article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Navy. Navy 73 · Character encoding 70 · Elston Howard 66 · Fotheringhay Castle 63 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.
- During a 14-year baseball career, he played in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball from 1948 through 1968, primarily for the New York Yankees.
- A 12-time All-Star, he also played for the Kansas City Monarchs and the Boston Red Sox.
- Howard served on the Yankees' coaching staff from 1969 to 1979.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Elston Howard article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Elston Howard
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, Elston Howard (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Arnie Lee, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
