William Grafton Coggins Sr., the owner of a hauling business that served the Baltimore Orioles for nearly 80 years and made pickups and deliveries of baseball equipment to four city ballparks, died of a heart attack Aug. 13 at the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center. The Bel Air resident was a week short of his 96th birthday.
Born in Baltimore and raised in a family home on Greenmount Avenue, he was the son of Lawrence Eugene Coggins, who delivered ice and coal by horse and wagon. His mother was Stella Yeager, a homemaker.
The Coggins family lived a block away from the old 29th Street International League Oriole Park.