Pope Leo XIV put his baseball fandom in the midst on Wednesday.
He wore a white -white hat when he arrived at the Vatican for his weekly general audience.
Leo, from Chicago, previously known as Cardinal Robert Prevost, was elected first pontiff born in the United States on May 8. Since then, his most notable sports allegiance has been determined.
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Although the Chicago Cubs initially claimed Leo After ABC News reported That he was a rare fan of southern Cubs, Leo’s brother quickly challenged this story in an interview with WGN News from Chicago.
“He has never been, never a fan of the cubs, so I don’t know where it came from. He was always a fan of the Sox. Our mother was a fan of the cubs. I don’t know, maybe it hung on, and our father was a fan of cardinals, so I don’t know where it came from.
Then the Sun-Totes Chicago Located a photo From Leo to the 2005 World Series, in which the White Sox swept the Houston Astros for their first championship in 88 years.
Sox on the 35th blogger Joe Binder went a step further and dig out of the Pope Now of the match 1 of this series. The camera briefly shows Leo as he nervously awaits the final, with White Sox closer to Bobby Jenks on the bump in a 5-3 victory.
The White Sox celebrated their most famous fan For more than a month now. Leo gave the SOX another reason to continue this parade on Wednesday, when he associated the emblematic ceiling of the team with his papal clothes.