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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]

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)

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]

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