Cupid Childs

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 185 lb

BornAugust 8, 1867 · Calvert County, MD, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1888

Final gameJuly 8, 1901

Seasons13 (1888–1901)

Philadelphia Quakers 1888; Syracuse Stars 1890; Cleveland Spiders 1891–1898; St. Louis Perfectos 1899; Chicago Orphans 1900–1901

Percentile snapshot

1900 season — qualified batters

137

80.4

615

78.4

531

74.5

35.3

128

39.2

35.3

29.4

RBI

19.6

82.4

41.2

23.5

.241

3.9

OBP

.323

15.7

SLG

.286

3.9

OPS

.609

9.8

wRC+

75.5

11.8

OPS+

68.6

9.8

wOBA

.303

11.8

sWAR

0.3

15.7

of 52 qualified 1900 batters (min 452 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

122.1

81.9

OPS+

121.8

81.9

sWAR

42.9

98.2

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1888	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-71.5	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1890	126	571	493	109	170	33	14	2	89	72	0	56	.345	.434	.481	.915	152.0	168.9	.444	5.9
1891	141	655	551	120	155	21	12	2	83	97	32	39	.281	.395	.374	.769	123.5	124.2	.379	4.3
1892	145	684	558	136	177	14	11	3	53	117	20	26	.317	.443	.398	.841	149.6	154.2	.417	6.8
1893	124	609	485	145	158	19	10	3	65	120	12	23	.326	.463	.425	.888	134.7	136.3	.437	4.8
1894	118	595	479	143	169	21	12	2	52	107	11	17	.353	.475	.459	.935	126.2	125.9	.445	4.1
1895	120	554	466	96	134	15	4	4	90	74	24	20	.288	.392	.363	.755	100.5	95.2	.370	2.0
1896	132	615	498	106	177	24	9	1	106	100	18	25	.355	.467	.446	.913	139.4	141.1	.441	5.3
1897	114	537	444	105	150	15	9	1	61	74	19	25	.338	.435	.419	.854	126.0	125.7	.414	3.6
1898	110	500	413	90	119	9	4	1	31	69	29	9	.288	.395	.337	.732	115.0	109.7	.369	2.8
1899	125	553	464	73	123	11	11	1	48	74	19	11	.265	.369	.343	.711	100.3	95.3	.353	2.1
1900	137	615	531	67	128	14	5	0	44	57	23	15	.241	.323	.286	.609	75.5	68.6	.303	0.3
1901	63	274	236	24	61	9	0	0	21	30	21	3	.258	.359	.297	.656	100.2	92.5	.328	1.0

Career totals

1,457

6,766

5,622

1,214

182nd-most career R

1,721

469th-most career H

205

101

160th-most career 3B

RBI

743

991

129th-most career BB

228

269

211th-most career SB

.3061

156th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4157

29th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3892

OPS

.8049

457th-highest career OPS

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	TB
1901-07-04	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	5
1901-04-30	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	3
1901-05-23	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	0	2	1	3	3
1901-05-21	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	0	2	1	1	3
1901-06-02	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	0	2	1	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	CIN @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.