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John Smoltz, a Rare card
John Andrew Smoltz, nicknamed "Smoltzie" and "Marmaduke", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1988 to 2009, all but the last year with the Atlanta Braves.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 154
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 260,000
Ranked #1,522 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- An eight-time All-Star, Smoltz was part of a celebrated trio of starting pitchers, along with Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, who propelled Atlanta to perennial pennant contention in the 1990s, highlighted by a championship in the 1995 World Series.
- He won the National League Cy Young Award in 1996 after posting a record of 24–8, equaling the most victories by an NL pitcher since 1972.
- He also played for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Smoltz article was read about 260,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get John Smoltz
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John Smoltz (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : apardavila, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.





