Since assuming his position in 1999, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum President Dale Petroskey and his team have been on a mission to bring his nonprofit enterprise to the millions of baseball fans who either can't find the time or don't have the resources to travel to baseball history's home plate in isolated Cooperstown, New York.
Petroskey and his 90 full-time staff members have effectively executed their outreach gameplan, and beginning on Sept. 28, Dallas becomes the 13th major American city to host "Baseball As America," an exhibit featuring 500 of the museum's most important artifacts. The exhibit opens at the Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas at Fair Park, where it will remain through Jan. 13, 2008. The opportunity to see the traveling road show from Cooperstown is sponsored nationally by Ernst & Young, and locally by Turner Construction, AT&T, the State Fair of Texas and the Texas Rangers baseball team.