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Mariano Rivera, a Rare card
Mariano Rivera is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball player who was a pitcher for 19 seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, from 1995 to 2013.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 97
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 197
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 330,000
Ranked #25 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Mariano Rivera quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mariano Rivera card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A 13-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion, he is MLB's career leader in saves and games ______.
Answer
finished. A 13-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion, he is MLB's career leader in saves and games finished. From the Mariano Rivera article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
New York City. New York City 4,900,000 · Sydney 1,200,000 · BP 680,000 · Mariano Rivera 330,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Nicknamed "Mo" and "Sandman", he spent most of his career as a relief pitcher and served as the Yankees' closer for 17 seasons.
- A 13-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion, he is MLB's career leader in saves and games finished.
- Rivera won five American League Rolaids Relief Man Awards and three Delivery Man of the Year Awards, and he finished in the top three in voting for the AL Cy Young Award four times.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mariano Rivera article was read about 330,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 97 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Mariano Rivera
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mariano Rivera (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User Keith Allison on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
