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Gaylord Perry, an Uncommon card
Gaylord Jackson Perry was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for eight teams from 1962 to 1983, becoming one of the most durable and successful pitchers in history.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 170
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 170 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Gaylord Perry quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gaylord Perry card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A five-time All-Star, Perry was the first ______ to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues.
Answer
pitcher. A five-time All-Star, Perry was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues. From the Gaylord Perry article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of national monuments of the United States. List of national monuments of the United States 91 · Tom Pidcock 86 · Chumash people 81 · Gaylord Perry 77 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A five-time All-Star, Perry was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues.
- He won the American League award in 1972 after leading the league with 24 wins with a 1.92 earned run average for the fifth-place Cleveland Indians and took the National League award in 1978 with the San Diego Padres after again leading the league with 21 wins, his Cy Young Award announcement just as he turned the age of 40 made him the oldest to win the award, which stood as a record for 26…
- He and his older brother Jim Perry, who were Cleveland teammates in 1974–1975, became the first brothers to both win 200 games in the major leagues and remain the only brothers to both win Cy Young Awards.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gaylord Perry article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 93: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Gaylord Perry
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gaylord Perry (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
