Ed Croke Bengals Elite Jerseys , the New York Giants' former public relations director, died Wednesday. He was 86.

The NFL team said Croke died at his home in Jupiter, Florida.

Croke joined the Giants in 1965 as director of promotions and was public relations from 1972 until retiring in 1993.

Before joining the Giants, he was a police reporter and feature news columnist for the Herald Statesman in Yonkers for three years Dion Dawkins Jersey , and sports editor and columnist for the Reporter Dispatch in White Plains for six years.

Croke earned all-league honors in football, basketball and baseball at North Tarrytown High School in New York. He attended Iona College on a basketball scholarship and lettered for three seasons. He also was a three-year letterman as a pitcher on the baseball team, and pitched briefly in the North Atlantic League before entering the U.S. Army.


Pirates infielder Jung Ho Kang has been reinstated from the restricted list and optioned to Triple-A Indianapolis after missing last season and the first part of this year because of visa issues.

The 31-year-old Kang was unable to secure a work visa to travel from his native South Korea to the United States after he was arrested for DUI for a third time in December 2016 in Seoul. He received an eight-month suspended prison sentence.

Friday’s move is primarily procedural, since Kang already has played in 11 minor league games. He was cleared to travel to the U.S. on April 27.

Kang went 1 for 15 in his first four games for Indianapolis after batting .417 (10 for 24) in seven games for high Class A Bradenton.

Kang finished third in the 2015 NL Rookie of the Year voting after becoming the first native South Korean position player to make the jump from the Korea Baseball Organization to the major leagues. He hit .287 with 15 homers in 126 games that season Malcolm Smith Jersey , and then .255 with 21 homers in 103 games in 2016.

Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said there is no timetable for when Kang might be called up.

”He needs to play games,” Hurdle said. ”He needs to have a real spring training