MLB: We Get It, No One Wants Us Playing in Grand Teton

Baseball won't be invading one of Wyoming's postcard views after all, the Washington Post reports. Major League Baseball has scrapped an early-stage idea to stage a one-off game inside Grand Teton National Park after local officials and conservation groups objected.

In a Thursday letter, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said it was "clear the local community does not want us to continue evaluating Grand Teton National Park as a potential site" and vowed not to push ahead. He noted there was never a "formal plan" to pursue a game there, the AP reports. The White House also issued a statement to the Guardian saying the idea had not been a White House directive, and no permits had been issued.

League officials had floated the concept with the Trump administration and the National Park Service had assessed possible locations. The backlash was swift; the NPS is already under scrutiny as the administration reshapes federal land management. MLB has in recent years experimented with neutral-site games from Fort Bragg to the "Field of Dreams" farm in Iowa, but Grand Teton is now off the list.