Post by ic59 on Jun 23, 2018 7:43:41 GMT -5
We lost another ex-Iona BB player, this week. Ed played BB, at North Tarreytown HS and was a three sport athlete at Iona, playing with Richie Guerin in the early fifties. And even though he wasn't a great BB player, from the sixties through the eighties (until the arrival of Jeff Ruland) he was probably second to only Richie Guerin as a famous former Iona athlete. His fame came about when, in the mid-sixties, he was hired as the PR guy for the football Giants. During the football season his name appeared in the paper ("According to Ed Croke, ...") on an almost daily basis. In his obit, it said that he was instrumental in the start of the Con Edison HS award, and he was also the author of two books. May he Rest In Peace.
P.S. He served in the Army during the Korean War.
P.S. He served in the Army during the Korean War.
