Mary Flaherty (baseball)

American baseball player

Baseball player

Mary Flaherty

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Pitcher / Third base
Born: (1926-02-07)February 7, 1926
Ozone Park, Queens, New York
Died: March 30, 2000(2000-03-30) (aged 74)
Vero Beach, Florida

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

Teams

* Racine Belles (1948)
* Peoria Redwings (1949)

Career highlights and awards

* Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (unveiled in 1988)

Mary "Irish" Flaherty (February 7, 1926 – March 30, 2000) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. She batted and threw right handed.[1]

Born in Ozone Park, New York,[1] Mary Flaherty was approached by an All American League scout while playing in a fastpitch softball league in New Jersey.[1]

As a result, Flaherty was assigned to be a pitcher and play at third base for the Racine Belles and Peoria Redwings clubs in a span of two seasons from 1948 to 1949. She did not have individual records or additional information was incomplete at the time of the request.[1][2] Afterwards, she worked for Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company in Long Island City.[1]

Mary Flaherty died in 2000 in Vero Beach, Florida, at the age of 74.[1] The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League folded in 1954, but there is a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York since 1988 that honors the entire league rather than any individual figure.[3]

## Sources[edit]

1. ^ a b c d e f All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Mary J. Flaherty – Profile / Obituary. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
2. ^ Madden, W. C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-0597-8
3. ^ Before A League of Their Own, baseballhall.org; accessed July 3, 2020.

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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Teams|

* Battle Creek Belles
* Chicago Colleens
* Fort Wayne Daisies
* Grand Rapids Chicks
* Kalamazoo Lassies
* Kenosha Comets
* Milwaukee Chicks
* Minneapolis Millerettes
* Muskegon Belles
* Muskegon Lassies
* Peoria Redwings
* Racine Belles
* Rockford Peaches
* South Bend Blue Sox
* Springfield Sallies

Seasons|

* 1943
* 1944
* 1945
* 1946
* 1947
* 1948
* 1949
* 1950
* 1951
* 1952
* 1953
* 1954

Awards and recognition|

* All-Star Team
* Player of the Year
* Batting records
* Fielding records
* Pitching records

Related articles|

* List of managers
* List of players
* Rules of play
* A League of Their Own (film)
* A League of Their Own (1993 TV series)
* A League of Their Own (2022 TV series)
* Bill Allington
* Arthur Meyerhoff
* Philip K. Wrigley

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