Love of baseball runs deep in Canada's most notorious political family
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Perhaps Ross Atkins should take his cue from Justin Trudeau.
The Canadian Prime Minister announced his resignation on Monday morning. Unlike baseball however, he won't leave immediately, and will stay on until a new leader is chosen.
For a leader of hockey-loving nation, Trudeau has surprisingly deep baseball routes. As a child growing up in Montreal, Trudeau attended Montreal Expos games with his father, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Trudeau senior inherited his love of baseball from his father, the current Prime Minister's grandfather, a man by the name of Charles-Emile Trudeau.
Charles-Emile was a Quebec entrepreneur and noted baseball enthusiast. In addition to having his fingers in many oil and mining businesses, Charles-Emile was on the board of directors for the Montreal Royals, the farm team for the Brooklyn Dodgers that once employed a kid named Jackie Robinson
Not only this, but at the time of his death, Charles-Emile was vice president of the team.
When Trudeau went to a Blue Jays game back in 2015, there was alleged curse of the team losing games whenever political leaders attended. It continued when Trudeau made his Rogers Centre appearance, as the Blue Jays were on the losing end of that game as well.
The curse didn't hold of course, as the Blue Jays went on to win the AL East in 2015 and make the post-season for the first time since winning the World Series in 1993.
While the future is uncertain for Justin Trudeau, it is unlikely that he follow in his grandfather's footsteps and invest in baseball.
But you never know.
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JANVIER 6 | 269 ANSWERS Love of baseball runs deep in Canada's most notorious political family Would Justin Trudeau be a better GM than Ross Atkins? | ||
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