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Larry Doby, an Uncommon card
Lawrence Eugene Doby was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball who was the second black player to break baseball's color barrier and the first black player in the American League.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 175
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 82,000
Power 175 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Larry Doby quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Larry Doby card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Doby joined the ______ States Navy during World War II.
Answer
United. Doby joined the United States Navy during World War II. From the Larry Doby article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
History of Croatia. History of Croatia 91 · Larry Doby 84 · Land Reform Movement 81 · Battle of Kohima 76 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A native of Camden, South Carolina, and three-sport all-state athlete while in high school in Paterson, New Jersey, Doby accepted a basketball scholarship from Long Island University.
- At 17 years of age, he began his professional baseball career with the Newark Eagles as the team's second baseman.
- Doby joined the United States Navy during World War II.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Larry Doby article was read about 82,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Larry Doby
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Larry Doby (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bowman Gum, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
