John Timothy Flaherty is a television baseball broadcaster and a retired Major League Baseball

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 player. Flaherty was a catcher

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, and last played in the major leagues for the New York Yankees

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Flaherty grew up in West Nyack, New York

West Nyack, New York

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 and graduated in 1985 from Saint Joseph Regional High School

Saint Joseph Regional High School

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 in Montvale, New Jersey

Montvale, New Jersey

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. He went to grammar school at St. Anthony School in Nanuet, New York

Nanuet, New York

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. He attended George Washington University

George Washington University

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, graduating in 1988, and he batted and threw right-handed.
Drafted by the Boston Red Sox

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 in 1988, he moved through the farm system and broke through with the Sox in 1992.