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Uncommon card · History
Whitey Ford, an Uncommon card
Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford, nicknamed "the Chairman of the Board", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played his entire 16-year Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 73
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Whitey Ford quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Whitey Ford card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was a 10-time All-Star and six-time World Series ______.
Answer
champion. He was a 10-time All-Star and six-time World Series champion. From the Whitey Ford article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In ____, he won both the Cy Young Award and World Series Most Valuable Player Award.
Answer
1960s. In 1961, he won both the Cy Young Award and World Series Most Valuable Player Award. From the Whitey Ford article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Domestic worker. Domestic worker 82 · Gene Tunney 79 · First Brazilian Republic 76 · Whitey Ford 71 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.
- He was a 10-time All-Star and six-time World Series champion.
- In 1961, he won both the Cy Young Award and World Series Most Valuable Player Award.
- Ford led the American League in wins three times and in earned run average twice.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Whitey Ford article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 73: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Whitey Ford
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, Whitey Ford (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bowman Gum, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
