North Quincy High School

Mary Pratt

Mary Pratt (professional baseball player and educator) is in the 1936 yearbook of North Quincy High School, Quincy, Massachusetts. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates and what the book says.

Class of 1936

Before they were famous

Mary Pratt professional baseball player and educator

Mary Pratt was a baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943 to 1947, initially playing for the Rockford Peaches and later for the Kenosha Comets. She earned a degree in physical education and taught physical education classes for many years. Pratt also coached several school sports teams, leading her softball team to multiple state championships.

Born: November 30, 1918, Bridgeport
Died: 2020
Age in this yearbook: about 18
In the yearbook as: Mary Pratt, North Quincy High School, class of 1936

How we know this is the same person: Wikipedia: “She attended North Quincy High School. After graduation, she entered Boston University's Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and participated in various sports there, including basketball, softball, volleyball, lacrosse, field hockey, tennis, archery, and sailing. Pratt earned a degree in physical education in 1940.” The yearbook name, school and class year (1936) fit the Wikidata birth year (1918). Summary written from the Wikipedia article (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

267 in the class of 1936 · 54 more named Pratt

Full name: Mary Pratt
Lived at: 50 Apthorp St., Wollaston, Quincy, Massachusetts
School: North Quincy High School
Graduated: Class of 1936

Also searched as: Polly Pratt; Molly Pratt; Pratt, Mary.

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Neighbours 9
Same surname 45
Classmates 266

In context

Of the 267 entries from the North Quincy High School class of 1936 read for this site, Mary's is 197th alphabetically. The entry is on page 25 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 5 to page 34. With 9 people called Mary, it ranks 2nd among first names in the class. 5 of Mary's classmates in the North Quincy High School class of 1936 also gave Apthorp Street as their street. Against 211 for 1935 and 265 for 1937, the class of 1936 comes to 267 names on this site.

On the same scan page	Richard B. Pickett, Eleanor A. Pitts, Elizabeth H. Plummer, Roy G. Poulsen and 5 more
Same street	Apthorp Street: 5 other classmates
Same first name	Mary: 8 other people in the class

At home, 50 Apthorp St., Wollaston

The 1938 city directory lists Mary Pratt with the occupation “student” (page).

The 1936 Quincy Directory lists these people named Pratt at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Wm Y Pratt (wife Daisy E), draftsman B S Corp householderpage
Wm R Pratt, clerk B S Corp lived herepage

The Pratt household is listed here in 1938 and 1941 too.

What Mary did at school

Varsity Basketball '34, '35, Cap- tain '36
Girls' Club '35, '36
Manet Staff '36
Traffic Squad '34, '35, '30

Also grew up on Apthorp St., Wollaston

The class of 1936

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Source

North Quincy High School yearbook, 1936, page 25. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item manet1936nort).

Published 1936. Scan courtesy of the contributing library via the Internet Archive.

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