 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.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.