Obama to Visit Baseball Hall of Fame to Promote Tourism

President Obama will visit the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown on Thursday to discuss the connection between tourism and jobs.

Obama is the first sitting president to visit the Hall of Fame, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year

"The fact that a sitting president has not visited here in our first 74-plus years, it was surprising to get the call, but exciting to realize that the chief executive would be delivering a speech on tourism from a place that thrives on it," Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson said Tuesday. Each year, the baseball museum attracts about 300,000 visitors to upstate New York. Read more...