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Happy Felsch

Oscar Emil Felsch

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: August 22, 1891 in Milwaukee, WI (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1915
Team: WhiteSox 1915-1920

Final Game: September 26, 1920
Died: August 17, 1964 in Milwaukee, WI
Buried: Wisconsin Memorial Park, Brookfield, WI
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 12, 2012, 12:05AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #838. Yadier Molina… #839. Bill North… #840. Joe Randa… #841. HAPPY FELSCH… #842. Ozzie Guillen… #843. Steve Kemp… #844. Germany Smith… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1915 23 CHW AL 121 496 427 65 106 18 11 3 53 16 18 51 59 .248 .334 .363 .697 106 155 4 14 *O
1916 24 CHW AL 146 593 546 73 164 24 12 7 70 13 0 31 67 .300 .341 .427 .768 130 233 3 13 *O
1917 25 CHW AL 152 632 575 75 177 17 10 6 102 26 33 52 .308 .352 .403 .755 128 232 6 18 *O
1918 26 CHW AL 53 228 206 16 52 2 5 1 20 6 15 13 .252 .306 .325 .632 89 67 1 6 O
1919 27 CHW AL 135 567 502 68 138 34 11 7 86 19 40 35 .275 .336 .428 .764 113 215 6 19 *O
1920 28 CHW AL 142 613 556 88 188 40 15 14 115 8 13 37 25 .338 .384 .540 .923 143 300 4 16 *O
6 Seasons 749 3129 2812 385 825 135 64 38 446 88 31 207 251 .293 .347 .427 .774 123 1202 24 86
162 Game Avg. 162 677 608 83 178 29 14 8 96 19 45 54 .293 .347 .427 .774 123 260 5 19

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1915 23 CHW AL 496 4 -1 0 0 -2 -4 17 14 1.4 16 1.7 -0.3 $ *O
1916 24 CHW AL 593 14 3 0 0 5 -4 20 38 4.2 33 3.6 0.6 $ *O
1917 25 CHW AL 632 23 1 0 0 6 -4 21 47 5.2 41 4.5 0.7 $ *O
1918 26 CHW AL 228 -3 0 0 0 0 -1 7 3 0.3 3 0.3 0.0 $2,750 O
1919 27 CHW AL 567 9 1 0 0 6 -4 19 31 3.2 25 2.6 0.6 $2,750 *O
1920 28 CHW AL 613 30 -2 0 0 6 -4 19 49 4.9 43 4.3 0.6 $7,000 *O
6 Seasons 3129 77 2 0 0 21 -21 103 182 19.2 161 17.0 2.2 $12,500

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1917 25 CHW AL WS NYG W 6 23 22 4 6 1 0 1 3 0 2 1 5 .273 .304 .455 .759 10 0 0 0 0 0
1919 27 CHW AL WS CIN L 8 31 26 2 5 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 4 .192 .222 .231 .453 6 1 0 4 0 0
2 Seasons (2 Series) 14 54 48 6 11 2 0 1 6 0 3 2 9 .229 .260 .333 .593 16 1 0 4 0 0
2 WS 14 54 48 6 11 2 0 1 6 0 3 2 9 .229 .260 .333 .593 16 1 0 4 0 0

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G Awards
1915 CHW AL 23 OF 118 267 247 9 11 1 .959 2.17 .958 2.05 34-73-10
1916 CHW AL 24 OF 141 366 340 19 7 5 .981 2.55 .963 2.12 0-141-0
1917 CHW AL 25 OF 152 471 440 24 7 5 .985 3.05 .967 2.22 0-152-0
1918 CHW AL 26 OF 53 163 149 7 7 4 .957 2.94 .962 2.26 0-53-0
1919 CHW AL 27 OF 135 405 360 32 13 14 .968 2.90 .958 2.26
1919 CHW AL 27 CF 135 135 131 405 360 32 13 14 .968 2.90 .961 2.64
1920 CHW AL 28 OF 142 418 385 25 8 10 .981 2.89 .962 2.25
1920 CHW AL 28 CF 142 141 138 418 385 26 7 10 .983 2.89 .966 2.55
6 Seasons OF 741 2090 1921 116 53 39 .975 2.75 .962 2.19 34-696-10
2 Seasons (incomplete) CF 277 276 269 823 745 58 20 24 .976 2.90 .964 2.59
6 Seasons TOT 741 2090 1921 116 53 39 .975 2.75 .962 2.19 34-696-10
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1916 AL  4.2 (10th)
1917 AL  5.2 (8th)
1920 AL  4.9 (8th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1916 AL  3.6 (10th)
1917 AL  4.5 (9th)
1920 AL  4.3 (7th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1916 AL  0.6 (9th)
1917 AL  0.7 (4th)
1919 AL  0.6 (6th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1916 AL  .300 (9th)
1917 AL  .308 (5th)
1920 AL  .338 (9th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1916 AL  .427 (6th)
1917 AL  .403 (10th)
1920 AL  .540 (5th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1916 AL  .768 (9th)
1920 AL  .923 (6th)

Games Played s c a p y
1917 AL  152 (8th)

At Bats s c a p y
1917 AL  575 (6th)

Hits s c a p y
1916 AL  164 (9th)
1917 AL  177 (5th)
1920 AL  188 (9th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1916 AL  233 (5th)
1917 AL  232 (6th)
1919 AL  215 (10th)
1920 AL  300 (6th)

Doubles s c a p y
1919 AL  34 (5th)
1920 AL  40 (4th)

Triples s c a p y
1916 AL  12 (8th)
1920 AL  15 (4th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1916 AL  7 (3rd)
1917 AL  6 (4th)
1919 AL  7 (8th)
1920 AL  14 (4th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1917 AL  102 (2nd)
1919 AL  86 (6th)
1920 AL  115 (6th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1916 AL  67 (5th)

Singles s c a p y
1917 AL  144 (6th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1916 AL  130 (10th)
1920 AL  144 (6th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1916 AL  79 (9th)
1917 AL  80 (8th)
1920 AL  109 (7th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1916 AL  16 (10th)
1920 AL  32 (6th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1916 AL  1.8 (10th)
1920 AL  3.1 (6th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1916 AL  43 (8th)
1919 AL  52 (5th)
1920 AL  69 (4th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1916 AL  .696 (7th)
1917 AL  .687 (9th)
1920 AL  .704 (8th)
Career  .644 (230th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1917 AL  6 (10th)
1919 AL  6 (9th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1916 AL  9.1 (5th)
1917 AL  9.8 (4th)
1919 AL  10.2 (6th)
1920 AL  10.2 (8th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1916 AL  78.0 (5th)
1917 AL  95.8 (7th)
1920 AL  39.7 (5th)

Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  58 (91st)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1917 AL  152 (4th)
1919 AL  135 (5th)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1917 AL  440 (1st)
1919 AL  360 (2nd)
1920 AL  385 (3rd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1917 AL  24 (4th)
1919 AL  32 (1st)
1920 AL  25 (3rd)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1919 AL  13 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1919 AL  2.90 (3rd)
1920 AL  2.89 (2nd)

Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1919 AL  .968 (3rd)
1920 AL  .983 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1916 AL  2.55 (2nd)
1917 AL  3.05 (1st)
1919 AL  2.90 (2nd)
1920 AL  2.89 (2nd)
Career  2.75 (16th)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1916 AL  .981 (2nd)
1917 AL  .985 (3rd)
1920 AL  .981 (3rd)

                           

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 66 (380), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 22 (768), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 14 (1169), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Clyde Barnhart (965)
  2. Beau Bell (959)
  3. Braggo Roth (954)
  4. Jimmy Welsh (953)
  5. Adam Comorosky (949)
  6. Roy Weatherly (948)
  7. Dave Robertson (948)
  8. Dusty Miller (947)
  9. Pat Duncan (946)
  10. Birdie Cree (937)
Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Austin McHenry (981)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Ping Bodie (974)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Ping Bodie (969)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Ken Landreaux (966)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Braggo Roth (954)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Transactions

  • August 8, 1914: Purchased by the Chicago White Sox from Milwaukee (American Association) for $12000 and 2 players.
The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
191826Chicago White Sox$2,750B. Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook 257
191927Chicago White Sox$2,750B. Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook 257
192028Chicago White Sox$7,000II Seymour at 335
Career to date (may be incomplete)$12,500
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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