Dale Petroskey

Dale A. Petroskey (born August 17, 1955) is the current President and CEO of the Dallas Regional Chamber. He is the former Executive Vice President of Marketing for the Texas Rangers baseball club, a former executive of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the National Geographic Society, and a former political appointee in the administration of United States President Ronald Reagan.

Petroskey graduated from Michigan State University in 1978, and worked in the White House from 1985 to March 1987 as Assistant Press Secretary under Ronald Reagan. Before working for Reagan he was assistant press secretary for the Michigan House Republican caucus, then chief of staff for Representative William F. Goodling, a Republican from Pennsylvania. After serving Reagan he was assistant secretary of public affairs at the United States Department of Transportation under Secretary Elizabeth Dole. Then he served as a senior executive at the National Geographic Society from 1988 to 1999.

Petroskey was elected to the Presidency of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum on June 15, 1999, and he resigned March 25, 2008.

During his tenure as the President of the Hall, Petroskey was credited with expanding membership and fundraising, furthering educational efforts and outreach, and establishing a closer relationship with the business of baseball (which is to say, Major League Baseball itself) with which the Hall had not always been on the best of terms. Under his leadership, the Hall completed a major renovation and modernization, which was completed in 2005 at a cost of $20 million.

He has also been credited for the Hall's recent initiatives to increase and further recognition of the contributions of Negro League players, managers, and executives, continuing an effort first broached by Hall of Famer --and Negro Leaguer-- Jackie Robinson. A five-year program resulted in the elevation of 17 Negro Leaguers to members of the Hall of Fame.

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