Mary Flaherty (baseball)

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Mary Flaherty
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
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

scout while playing in a fastpitch softball league in New Jersey.[1]

As a result, Flaherty was assigned to be a

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

Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York since 1988 that honors the entire league rather than any individual figure.[3]

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