Albersheim's 2014 Summer Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/24/2014
"Well, the beans are spilled and I think I'm through with baseball. I got $5,000. I could have got just about that much by being on the level if the Sox had won the Series. And now I'm out of baseball — the only profession I know anything about, and a lot of gamblers have gotten rich. The joke seems to be on us."
-Happy Felsch
One of the "Eight Men Out", here's a standout Vintage 1910's ORIGNAL TYPE I portrait of Oscar "Happy" Felsch looking straight at YOU into the camera. The infamous Black Sox figure was one of the top batsmen in the American League. Felsch agreed to join a group of White Sox players that planned to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series in exchange for monetary payments from a network of gamblers. There was little doubt of Felsch's guilt on the field, as he not only hit poorly, but also misplayed flyballs in key situations. Chicago lost the series, five games to three. For his part in the fix, Felsch received $5,000, which was more than his entire regular season salary of $2,750.
We offer an original 5” x 7” Pacific and Atlantic photograph with the original stamping on the verso that dates this from the 1915-19.
Letter of Authenticity from Richard Albersheim.