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Leaving aside his affinities, there’s something about a Pope who likes baseball that brings me joy. Popes, for all my life (and at that, all the Church’s life), have been these distant, foreign figures, and now we have one who remembers Ozzie Guillen calling in Bobby Jenks from the pen, and DeWayne Wise making that catch, and perhaps even this, somewhat lesser, night at the ballpark. Maybe he’s not one of us seamheads, wondering what happened to Colson Montgomery or hankering for news that Jerry Reinsdorf will sell the team, but he’s one of us, a baseball fan, a Pope who’s been to the yard, had a dog, sung “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.”
