Dale Petroskey was named Executive Vice President for Marketing and Community Development of the Texas Rangers Baseball Club in May 2008.  In addition, he helps guide the direction of the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation, a non-profit organization which has raised and disbursed more than $10 million since 1991 to help those in need.

Prior to joining the Rangers, Petroskey spent nearly nine years as President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.  From 1988-99, he was a senior executive at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C.  From 1985-87, he served in The White House as Assistant Press Secretary to President Ronald Reagan.

 

Petroskey serves on the Boards of the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation; The Alfalfa Club of Washington, D.C.; the Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau; and the Arlington ISD Education Foundation.  He is also a member of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee.

Petroskey and his wife, Ann, were married in October 1978 after graduating from Michigan State University.  Their three children are all college students – Kathleen, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas; Frank, at the Tufts University in Boston; and Claire, at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.