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Cupid Childs : biography

August 14, 1867 – November 8, 1912

Clarence Algernon "Cupid" Childs (August 14, 1867 – November 8, 1912) was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball with a 13-season career from 1888, 1890–1901, playing for the Philadelphia Quakers, Cleveland Spiders, St. Louis Perfectos and Chicago Orphans of the National League and the Syracuse Stars of the American Association.

Childs was born in Calvert County, Maryland. A career .306 hitter, he led the league in runs in with 136.

He died at age 45 in Baltimore, Maryland.