Phil Coyne, a 99-year-old Pirates usher who has worked nearly every Pirates home game since 1936, is retiring, according to a report from The Incline.
Coyne, who will turn 100 on April 27, started working games at Forbes Field. As a kid, he watched in person as Babe Ruth hit the final three of his 714 home runs, in 1935.
“We all ran down to get the ball,” Coyne told the Post-Gazette last year. “I think it’s still out there.”
He stood behind the visitor’s dugout in 1960 when Bill Mazeroski hit a walk-off home run in Game 7 of the World Series.