09/27/2026
There’s nothing really as American as our national parks.
Or apple pie.
Or baseball.
….but I don’t think that should mean that we mix them all up and combine them.
ESPN, yes, the actual ESPN, is reporting that the Trump administration is floating the idea that they want to have Grand Teton National Park host a Major League Baseball game.
Where to start on this?
It seems unfathomable that a grand and sacred and wilderness bastion of mountain goodness could even be involved in the same conversation as a lively and raucous and crowded baseball game.
Yes, Grand Teton is a park with development in it, but it’s also a park with wilderness and untouched land. The park itself is predicated on the idea that a National Park can hold developed spaces and unblemished wilderness. Grand Teton National Park started its life as Public Lands in 1929 as a park that solely protecting the Teton Range. In the 1950s, the park was merged with Jackson Hole National Monument, which had been created through private land purchase to protect the entire valley and a key component of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Thus, the valley is developed; there are hotels, historic sites, functional ranches, and recreation. The mountains themselves are wilderness in every sense of the word: untamed, untouched, and wild.
Baseball has no place disturbing this delicate balance.
The good news is, even ESPN seems to doubt the plausibility of this idea; go see the link in our story. This is a maddening complex undertaking and the administration would face a slew of roadblocks and backlash against this.
And as always, that’s where we come in.
Speak out.
Tell them “No!”
These lands are your lands, if you fight for them.
And, as always, we say this not to be alarmist or to get clicks and views, but to tell you the facts: ESPN is reporting that The Trump Administration wants to have a baseball game in a National Park.
We don’t think that’s a wise or appropriate idea.
Let’s make it NOT happen.
