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King Kelly, a Common card
Michael Joseph "King" Kelly, also commonly known as "$10,000 Kelly", was an American baseball outfielder, catcher, and player-manager in various professional American baseball leagues including the National League, International Association, Players' League, and the American Association.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He spent the majority of his 16-season playing career with the Chicago White Stockings and the Boston Beaneaters.
- Kelly was a player-manager three times in his career – in 1887 for the Beaneaters, in 1890 leading the Boston Reds to the pennant in the only season of the Players' League's existence, and in 1891 for the Cincinnati Kelly's Killers – before his retirement in 1893.
- He is also often credited with helping to popularize various strategies as a player such as the hit and run, the hook slide, and the catcher's practice of backing up first base.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The King Kelly article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get King Kelly
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, King Kelly (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
