How Salt Lake City tried to keep the Bees, and why it didn’t work
While a coalition of Utah’s most powerful people push for Major League Baseball on the west side, the Ballpark neighborhood, which hosted games for the past century, stands to miss out. Emails show that’s not how Salt Lake City wanted it to go.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake Bees face the Reno Aces at Smith's Ballpark on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.
Blake joined The Tribune in March 2022 to cover city and county government before becoming an editor in 2024. He is a University of Minnesota graduate who started his journalism career in Las Vegas, where he covered local government, state politics and the depletion of the Colorado River. He is dad to a Golden Retriever named Woodward.