Mary "Irish" Flaherty (February 7, 1926 – March 30, 2000) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. She batted and threw right handed.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Mary J. Flaherty – Profile / Obituary. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
Born in Ozone Park, New York, Mary Flaherty was approached by an All American League scout while playing in a fastpitch softball league in New Jersey.
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.Madden, W. C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. McFarland & Company. Afterwards, she worked for Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company in Long Island City.
Mary Flaherty died in 2000 in Vero Beach, Florida, at the age of 74. 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.Before A League of Their Own, baseballhall.org; accessed July 3, 2020.
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