Jake Spring

The broad community pushback followed an exclusive story from The Washington Post that outlined how MLB approached the Trump administration about hosting a game inside a national park.

Here's Jake Spring, the post-climate and environment policy reporter before the MLB backed down from Grand Teton.

My colleague Stephanie Epstein talked to an expert, you know, a baseball expert, what would be involved, you know, probably spending at least $50 million.

It would be a tremendous undertaking to I mean, the feasibility is really an open question, I would say.

And Manfred's letter didn't rule out other national parks.

Before the league backed down from Grand Teton, I spoke with Jake Spring, the Post climate and environment policy reporter who helped break the story.

I'll just read the headline here.

"Trump Administration Considers Building Baseball Park in Grand Teton National Park." Jake, tell me about how you were first put onto this story.

The broad community pushback followed an exclusive story from The Washington Post that outlined how MLB approached the Trump administration about hosting a game inside a national park.

Here's Jake Spring, the Post climate and environment policy reporter, before the MLB backed down from Grand Teton.

My colleague Stephanie Epstein talked to an expert, you know, a baseball expert, what would be involved, you know, probably spending at least fifty million dollars.

It would be a tremendous undertaking.

But now it appears that Trump has yet another power move on his mind.

Jake Spring and Stephanie Apstein of the Washington Post reported tonight that the administration is considering hosting a Major League Baseball game at a national park.

It has been scouting where it could build a baseball facility in Grand Teton National Park.

Letters from an American was written by Heather Cox Richardson.