ALBANY — There will be a milestone at the Baseball Hall of Fame on Thursday, when President Obama becomes the first sitting president to visit the Cooperstown shrine.
Obama’s stop at the museum, to promote summer tourism on its 75th anniversary, will also provide a boost to Gov. Cuomo, who only last week announced a 50 percent increase in the state’s tourism budget.
Museum officials said they were thrilled, whatever the reason for the Obama drop-in.
“The fact that the spotlight’s on Cooperstown and the Hall of Fame is what’s most important,” said museum President Jeff Idelson.
Obama will be in New York on the same day that Cuomo accepts the Democratic nomination for governor at the party’s convention on Long Island.
Cuomo’s office wouldn’t say if he’d be on hand at Cooperstown before heading back to deliver his acceptance speech at the convention Thursday night.