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George Plimpton, an Uncommon card
George Ames Plimpton was an American writer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is known for his sports writing, for helping found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician accent.
- He was known for "participatory journalism," including accounts of his active involvement in professional sporting events, acting in a Western, performing a comedy act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.
- According to The New York Times, his "exploits in editing and writing seesawed between belles lettres and the witty accounts he wrote of his various madcap attempts to slip into other people's high-profile careers... a lanky, urbane man possessed of boundless energy and perpetual bonhomie became, in 1953, the first and only editor of The Paris Review.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The George Plimpton article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get George Plimpton
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, George Plimpton (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.


