Card, Baseball
Object number2019.134.1
Manufacturer
The Topps Company, Inc.
Date2018
OriginBrooklyn, NY
MediumPaper; Ink
Credit LineHeinz History Center Collection
DescriptionBaseball trading card. Rectangular off-white paper card with color photographic rendering of elderly Caucasian male in Pittsburgh Pirates usher uniform. Front has decorative printed border with subject's last name printed at top center in black and maker information printed along the bottom in black. Reverse has black printed card and usher biographical information on top half and maker information at bottom.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 3.5 × 2.5 × 0.063 in. (8.9 × 6.4 × 0.2 cm)InscriptionsFront has printed black text at top center "COYNE".
Reverse has black printed text on top half "THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONS / 100-YEAR-OLD PNC PARK TM USHER / 269 / PHIL COYNE / PERHAPS THE MOST BELOVED AND WELL-KNOWN / PITTSBUGH PIRATES FAN IN HISTORY, PHIL HAS / WITNESSED MORE OF THE FRANCHISE'S LORE THAN / ANYONE. COYNE TURNS 100 DURING THE 2018 / SEASON, HIS 82ND YEAR AS A STADIUM USHER. A / GENUINE PITTSBURGH TREASURE, HE WAS HONORED / BY THE CITY WITH AN OFFICIAL "PHIL COYNE / DAY" IN 2017. SAVE FOR DURING HIS SERVICE IN WORLD WAR II / HE HAS WORKED PIRATES HOME / GAMES SINCE 1936".
MarksFront has black printed text at bottom "2018 / TOPPS / ALLEN & GINTER / BROOKLYN, NEW YORK."
Reverse has black printed logos and text along the bottom including "topps [MLB logo] / ...©2018 THE TOPPS COMPANY, INC. ..."
Historical Notes2018 Topps Allen & Ginter Phil Coyne baseball trading card. PNC Park usher Phil Coyne was born in 1918 and began ushering baseball games at Forbes Field in 1936. Except for taking four years off for military service during WWII, it is believed by many that Phil retired with the longest continuous tenure in one job of any American citizen. Not only did Phil usher for more than 6,000 games at Forbes Field, Three Rivers Stadium, and PNC Park with his final years in sections 26 and 27, he also served as a long-time usher at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Oakland.
Related person
Phil Coyne
(born 1918)
Related institution
Pittsburgh Pirates
(founded 1887)
Related institution
Major League Baseball
On View
Not on view
c. 1980
