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The Trump administration is reportedly in talks with Major League Baseball to host a game inside a sprawling Wyoming national park - which would involve a major construction project.
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MLB executives have approached the White House about building a stadium inside Grand Teton National Park for a special event, similar to the Field of Dreams game, sources inside MLB and the administration told the Washington Post.
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An anonymous MLB official said the league is exploring building a park at Grand Teton after the success of the Field of Dreams game.
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MLB has played three games at a cornfield in Iowa, made famous by the iconic baseball film, Field of Dreams.
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The Minnesota Twins and Philadelphia Phillies played there in August.
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The White House said in a statement to the Post that the potential stadium is not a Presidential directive and is not a priority of the administration.
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Two people familiar with the plans said that National Park Service Deputy Director Frank Lands has visited the park to scout locations for a baseball stadium.
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He did not comment on the visit when asked by the Post.
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Luther Propst, a county commissioner in Wyoming, said he met Lands at the park for his visit, but did not discuss the potential construction of a baseball stadium.
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He defiantly disagreed with the idea, telling the Post that building a ballpark was 'a radical departure from the tradition of national parks.'
The MLB has approached the Trump administration about building a baseball stadium at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, pictured above
Trump previously directed the Department of the Interior in an executive order to develop a plan to increase revenue at national parks
A source said the MLB is exploring the idea after the success of the Field of Dreams game at a cornfield in Iowa, pictured above
Betsy Buffington, a regional director for the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), also opposed the idea.
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There is no other Grand Teton that is home to bears and wolves and bison, elk and pronghorn,' Buffington told the Post.
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'So the idea that we would put a baseball stadium in Grand Teton National Park is just — what would the word be? — ludicrous.
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I mean, I just can't fathom.'
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Grand Teton National Park spans 310,000 acres in northwestern Wyoming, south of Yellowstone.
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The park has 126 species in the summer and 58 in the winter.
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The NPCA has criticized the Trump administration's policies in the past.
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Earlier this month, the organization accused the administration of moving at 'a breakneck pace to dismantle our nation’s conservation legacy within our national parks and on public lands just beyond park boundaries.'
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The NPCA cited a Congressional attempt last year to sell off more than three million acres of public lands next to Zion National Park and Trump's decision to scale back protected land in Utah as examples.
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Trump issued an executive order in 2025 to 'make America beautiful again by improving our nation's parks.'
Three games have been played at the historic cornfield where Field of Dreams was filmed.
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Pictured above are the Chicago Cubs at the site in 2022
Grand Teton takes up 310,000 acres in northwestern Wyoming, south of Yellowstone.
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Conservationists opposed the idea of a ballpark in the area
The order directed the Secretary of the Interior to develop a strategy to increase revenue and rescinded diversity, equity and inclusion requirements in the National Park Service.
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It's unclear if plans to construct a baseball stadium in Grand Teton would be permanent.
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The Field of Dreams stadium was initially temporary, but was recently made permanent.
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Former Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt also designated Wrigley Field a National Historic Landmark in 2020.
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The Daily Mail has reached out to the White House, the Department of the Interior and MLB for comment.
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