{{Short description|Irish baseball player and coach (1874–1931)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Con Lucid |image= |position=Pitcher |birth_date={{Birth date|1874|2|24}} |birth_place=Dublin, Ireland |death_date={{Death date and age|1931|6|25|1874|2|24}} |death_place=Houston, Texas, U.S. |bats=Unknown |throws=Unknown |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=May 1 |debutyear=1893 |debutteam=Louisville Colonels |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=August 15 |finalyear=1897 |finalteam=St. Louis Browns |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Win–loss record |stat2label=Earned run average |stat3label=Strikeouts |stat1value=23–23 |stat2value=6.02 |stat3value=65 |teams= *Louisville Colonels (1893) *Brooklyn Grooms (1894–1895) *Philadelphia Phillies (1895–1896) *St. Louis Browns (1897) }} '''Cornelius Cecil Lucid''' (February 24, 1874 – June 25, 1931) was a 19th-century Irish born Major League Baseball pitcher and coach. He played from 1893 to 1897 in the National League.
Lucid's minor league baseball career spanned the period of 1890 to 1906. In addition to pitching as he had done in the Major Leagues, he also occasionally played outfielder as well. His two best seasons in the minor leagues were 1896 and 1904. In 1896 with three different teams, he had a record of 12–2 with an earned run average of 2.48 in 16 games. In 1904, he had a record of 13–8 in 21 games with the Pine Bluff Lumbermen.
Lucid managed and played for the Temple Boll Weevils of the Texas League during the entirety of the 1905 season and part of the 1906 season.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hanzelka|first1=Kris Rutherford; foreword by Scott|title=Baseball on the prairie : how seven small-town teams shaped Texas League history|date=2014|publisher=The History Press|isbn=9781609499358|pages=131–32}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Con Lucid Minor Leaguer Statistics & History|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=lucid-001con|website=Baseball-Reference|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|accessdate=3 April 2015}}</ref>
In 1915 Lucid served as the coach of the Texas A&M Aggies baseball team.<ref>{{cite web|title=Texas A&M Baseball History|url=http://www.12thman.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=632720&SPID=93243&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=27300&ATCLID=205238742|accessdate=19 October 2014|newspaper=12thman.com}}</ref> During his one season, he had a record of 16–5 overall and a record of 6–5 in the Southwest Conference.
Lucid died of heart disease at age 57, in Houston, Texas.
==See also== * List of players from Ireland in Major League Baseball
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==External links== {{Baseballstats|br=l/lucidco01|brm=lucid-001con}} * [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=lucidco01 Baseball Almanac]
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