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Oscar "Happy" Felsch (22 August 1891 - 17 August 1964) was an American baseball player. He is probably best known for his involvement in the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
Happy Felsch was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1891. He began his Major League Baseball career on 14 April 1915 as an outfielder for the Chicago White Sox.
In 1919, Felsch agreed to join a group of White Sox players that planned to intentionally lose the World Series in exchange for monetary payments from a network of gamblers. Felsch received $5,000 dollars for his role in the fix.
For his part in the fix, Felsch was banned for life from Major League Baseball, along with seven other players, by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
Happy Felsch would spend the next 15 years touring the country with various amateur teams. He died of liver disease in 1964, just five days before his 73rd birthday.
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