BD talked with Phil Coyne back in 2016. Here are excerpts from that interview.
You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who had a longer association with the Pittsburgh Pirates than Phil Coyne.
The Oakland native, who died Friday morning at the age of 102, worked as an usher for the team for 82 years, but he began going to games at what was then a relatively new Forbes Field around 1930. Coyne said in an interview in 2016:
“I was 12 years old, and the...