In Chicago, a city where baseball loyalty does not have a midpoint, one of the first questions that people asked, if the Pope, born in Chicago, cheered the white socks or puppies.
The lines that divide the puppies and fans of the Sox are not always clear. He usually speaks, North Siders supports the puppies, since Wigley Field is on his side of the city. South Siders is usual loyal to the Sox, who play in the field of the rate in Bridport, on the southern side. Suburbs tend to follow the same geographical divisions, but sometimes they are considered a gray area.
Fans on both sides seemed initially to claim the new Pope as his own. A spokeswoman for the puppies said for the first time that he could not confirm whether he was a fan, and issued a statement of Tom Ricketts, the executive president of the puppies, assuring the new Pope that he would be welcome in Wrigley Field.
“We would not only welcome Pope Leo XIV to Wrigley Field, but I could sing ‘Take Me Out to The Ball Game’ or, since three of his predecessors visited the Yankee Stadium, including Pope Paul VI, who delivered the 1965 sermon in the mound ‘, we would invite the Pontiff to do the same with the kind confines,” Ricketts said.
In the afternoon, Marquesina in Wrigley Field stated that the new Pope was a fan of puppies.
But in the suburbs of Chicago, Pope’s brother, John Prevost, left the WNG record, a television station that for decades transmitted the puppies games and helped create a fan base far beyond Chicago.
“He was never a puppy fan,” Prevost said. “So I don’t know where he came from. He was always a fan of the red socks.”
