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Happy Felsch

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Right  •  Throws: Right
5-11, 175lb (180cm, 79kg)
Born: August 22, 1891 in Milwaukee, WI us
Died: August 17, 1964  in Milwaukee, WI
Buried: Wisconsin Memorial Park, Brookfield, WI
Debut: April 14, 1915
Last Game: September 26, 1920
Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1915 season
Full Name: Oscar Emil Felsch
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Notable Events and Chronology for Happy Felsch Career

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August 14, 1919

Chicago White Sox CF Happy Felsch ties the major-league record with four OF assists in one game, but Boston beats the White Sox, 15 – 6.

October 6, 1919

Black Sox Commit three errors and lose game 5

October 7, 1919

Dickie Kerr of the Chicago White Sox overcomes errors by Swede Risberg and Happy Felsch to win the sixth game of the World Series, 5-4

October 8, 1919

Ed Cicotte wins Game 7 of the World Series 4 – 1

September 17, 1920

Red Faber beat the Yankees, 6 – 4

September 23, 1920

The Chicago grand jury indictment adds the names of former featherweight boxing champ Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns in the World Series scandal

October 22, 1920

100 Years Later: The Scandal That Rocked Baseball – The 1919 Black Sox Indictments

March 12, 1921

Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspends eight members of the Chicago White Sox for their alleged involvement in the fixing of the 1919 World Series

April 3, 1923

Happy Felsch and Swede Risberg file suit against the White Sox for back salary

March 22, 2022

Joe Jackson and the 1919 World Series

Biography

​Broad and powerful, Felsch was a natural at playing the game. A superb centerfielder with exceptional range and a rifle arm, Felsch still shares the records for double plays by an outfielder in a season (15) and assists in a game (4). Warm, smiling, and amiable, he loved silly riddles, whiskey, ribald jokes, and playing baseball.

On the White Sox, the fun-loving Felsch gravitated to the more raucous members of the team, who included the ringleaders of the Black Sox conspiracy. Years later, Felsch told author Eliot Asinof, “There was so much crookedness around, you sort of fell into it. I was dumb, all right. We started out talking about yy x x all the big money we would take, like a bunch of kids pretending to be big shots. I never really believed it would happen … and the next thing we knew, we were all tied up in it.” Once he agreed to the sinister plot, this simple man found himself in a situation he couldn’t control. The gamblers had a hold on him. Through threats, they forced him to throw more games during the 1920 season.

When the Black Sox scandal came out and he was barred from baseball, he was just emerging as a top power hitter, with 14 home runs in 1920.

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