The Catholic church electing its first American pope made it inevitable that we would be dissecting his sports fandom. There was some confusion when it came to Pope Leo XIV, however.
Leo, formerly known as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, became one of the world's most famous Chicago natives on Thursday with his elevation to the papacy. Born in Chicago's Mercy Hospital and raised in nearby Dolton, he is the first pope to hail from the U.S.
A Chicago native would naturally be expected to be a fan of the local teams, but that gets tricky when the city has two MLB clubs.