MLB / Players

Happy Felsch

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornApril 7, 1891 · Milwaukee, WI, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1915

Final gameSeptember 26, 1920

Seasons6 (1915–1920)

Chicago White Sox 1915–1920

Percentile snapshot

1920 season — qualified batters

142

64.8

613

69.7

556

76.1

83.8

188

89.4

95.8

96.5

RBI

115

96.5

45.1

22.5

.338

90.1

OBP

.384

82.4

SLG

.540

95.1

OPS

.923

93.7

wRC+

140.1

85.9

OPS+

143.6

86.6

wOBA

.420

92.3

sWAR

5.4

93.7

of 143 qualified 1920 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.8

81.4

OPS+

123.9

84.7

sWAR

19.7

93.4

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1915	121	496	427	65	106	18	11	3	53	51	59	16	18	.248	.334	.363	.697	107.0	107.9	.345	2.0
1916	146	593	546	73	164	24	12	7	70	31	67	13	0	.300	.341	.427	.768	128.8	132.7	.369	4.3
1917	152	632	575	75	177	17	10	6	102	33	52	26	0	.308	.352	.403	.755	127.5	129.7	.366	4.5
1918	53	228	206	16	52	2	5	1	20	15	13	6	0	.252	.306	.325	.632	87.4	90.9	.313	0.5
1919	135	567	502	68	138	34	11	7	86	40	35	19	0	.275	.336	.428	.764	112.0	114.3	.359	3.0
1920	142	613	556	88	188	40	15	14	115	37	25	8	13	.338	.384	.540	.923	140.1	143.6	.420	5.4

Career totals

749

3,129

2,812

385

825

135

478th-most career 3B

RBI

446

207

251

.2934

342nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3470

SLG

.4275

OPS

.7745

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1916-09-25	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	1	3	0	8
1916-07-30	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	0	0	8
1916-07-07	CWS @ NYY Gameday	6	1	5	0	1	0	1	0	7
1920-09-18	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	4	4	1	1	0	3	1	7
1916-07-31	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1915-04-14	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-15	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-16	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-17	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-18	CWS @ DET 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.