Jim Thome, an Uncommon card

James Howard Thome is an American former professional baseball player, a first baseman, third baseman and designated hitter, who played in Major League Baseball for 22 seasons.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Uncommon
Domain: History
ATK: 86
DEF: 97
Power: 183
Wikipedia reads a year: 170,000

Power 183 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

A prolific power hitter, Thome hit 612 home runs during his career, the eighth-most all time.
He amassed a total of 2,328 hits and 1,699 runs batted in.
His career batting average was.276.

Why it is Uncommon

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jim Thome article was read about 170,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 86 and blocks with 97: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.

How to get Jim Thome

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, Jim Thome (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.