Mary Flaherty (baseball)

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]