She’s been a baseball fan for as long as she can remember, but Miss America 2009 Katie Stam-Irk has taken her fandom to new heights since the Cubs won the World Series on November 2nd.
The Indiana beauty queen and her husband Brian Irk proved they’re the game’s biggest supporters this week when they revealed they have named their newborn son after the iconic Chicago baseball stadium.
Yes, as in Wrigley Stadium.
“It just fits him perfectly” Stam-Irk told PEOPLE. “We’ve been huge fans for a long time.”
Apparently, it was all down to a bet made in the first trimester:
“We were on a family walk and I said, ‘You’ve been a die-hard Cubs fan your whole life, and boy do I have the bet of a lifetime for you!’ ” says the mother of three. “If the Cubs win we get to name him Wrigley, if they don’t, we name him Oliver after my grandfather.”
“It wasn’t a win-lose kind of bet, I loved the name Wrigley and I wanted them to win!” she says. “It was just a fun, silly way to pick our son’s name instead of arguing about it.”
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Main image: Katie Stam-Irk/ Facebook
