Patsy Flaherty

{{Short description|American baseball player (1876–1968)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Patsy Flaherty

|image=Patsy Flaherty.jpg

|width=225

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date|1876|6|29}}

|birth_place=Mansfield, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1968|1|23|1876|6|29}}

|death_place=Alexandria, Louisiana, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 8

|debutyear=1899

|debutteam=Louisville Colonels

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 14

|finalyear=1911

|finalteam=Boston Rustlers

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=67–84

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=3.10

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=271

|teams=

• Louisville Colonels ({{baseball year|1899}})
• Pittsburgh Pirates ({{baseball year|1900}})
• Chicago White Sox ({{baseball year|1903}}–{{baseball year|1904}})
• Pittsburgh Pirates ({{baseball year|1904}}–{{baseball year|1905}})
• Boston Doves ({{baseball year|1907}}–{{baseball year|1908}})
• Philadelphia Phillies ({{baseball year|1910}})
• Boston Rustlers ({{baseball year|1911}})

}}

Patrick Joseph Flaherty (June 29, 1876 – January 23, 1968), born in Mansfield (now Carnegie), Pennsylvania,{{cite web|last=Bohn|first=Terry|title=Patsy Flaherty|website=Society for American Baseball Research|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/patsy-flaherty/|access-date=January 24, 2022}} was a pitcher for the Louisville Colonels (1899), Pittsburgh Pirates (1900 and 1904–05), Chicago White Sox (1903–1904), Boston Doves (1907–08), Philadelphia Phillies (1910) and Boston Rustlers (1911), who specialized in his spitball.The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers: An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches. Bill James and Rob Neyer. 2004.

He led the American League in hits allowed (338) and losses (25) in 1903. He led the National League in earned runs allowed (88) in 1908.

In 9 years Flaherty had a win–loss record of 67–84, 173 games, 150 games started, 125 complete games, 7 shutouts, 18 games finished, 2 saves, {{frac|1,302|2|3}} innings pitched, 1,292 hits allowed, 616 runs allowed, 449 earned runs allowed, 25 home runs allowed, 331 walks allowed, 271 strikeouts, 56 hit batsmen, 25 wild pitches, 5,156 batters faced, 2 balks and a 3.10 ERA.

He died in Alexandria, Louisiana, at the age of 91 and is buried at Alexandria National Cemetery in Pineville, Louisiana.