Published: April 16, 2008 12:09 am            

Baseball Hall to name president

Media conference set today

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Jeff Idelson is expected to be named president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame this afternoon, The Daily Star in Oneonta, N.Y., is reporting.

An announcement will be made during a media conference this afternoon at the shrine in Cooperstown, N.Y., a source speaking on the condition of anonymity told The Daily Star.

Idelson, 43, succeeds Dale Petroskey, who resigned suddenly March 25 after nearly nine years. The same day, the Hall named Idelson acting president.

The Hall’s five-person Executive Committee, made up of two-time National League MVP Joe Morgan, “Meet the Press” moderator Tim Russert, Edward Stack, Paul Beeston and Chair Jane Forbes Clark, also said in the media release: “The resignation is the result of our finding that Dale Petroskey failed to exercise proper fiduciary responsibility and it follows other business judgments that were not in the best interest of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.”

Petroskey, 52, made $305,000 in 2006, according to a Form 990 filed with the IRS.

Idelson, a native of West Newton, Mass., becomes the Hall’s sixth president. He’s been employed at the Hall since 1994. From 1989-93, Idelson worked as the New York Yankees’ director of media relations and publicity after holding a similar position with the Boston Red Sox from 1986-88.



The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y.

        

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