Baseball fans in the town of Paris have traded in peanuts and Cracker Jacks for cinnamon buns during post-season. 

The owner of Little Paris Bread Co. found out she was baking the “unofficial cinnamon bun of the Toronto Blue Jays” — as she has declared it — when she got an email from a medical staffer for the team.

It was the night of the first playoff game against the New York Yankees and he said he needed a pickup for Sunday morning.

“I read the message and I went ‘Oh my gosh, oh my gosh,’” April Vande Leygraaf told The Spectator.

The staffer grew up in Paris and had previously brought some of the sourdough cinnamon buns for the team because starting pitcher Kevin Gausman is a notorious lover of the treat.

This year, the staffer randomly stopped by on the way to work on the last day of the Boston series, after the team had lost two games in a row.

That night, they won.

Baseball being “very superstitious,” he had to keep going back for more buns, the staffer told The Spectator.

Although cinnamon buns are a “flagship” item for the bakery — which deals exclusively in sourdough — after the news spread, there was an uptick in sales.

“Now we’re finding people that maybe don’t normally order cinnamon buns with their orders are coming in and being like, ‘Oh, can I just get these for the game tonight?’” Vande Leygraaf said.

“It’s been a lot of fun,” she said.

Vande Leygraaf began as a home bakery seven years ago and has been at 32b Dundas St. W. for a little over five years.

“We don’t use any commercial yeast,” something that’s “pretty rare” for bakeries, because it makes for a long process, Vande Leygraaf said.

It’s that “little bit of a tang” from the long fermentation that she thinks makes her cinnamon buns “different from any other bun that you’re going to find.”

Although Vande Leygraaf wakes up too early to stay awake through the post-season games, she has been catching up in the morning.

“I’m up around four o’clock, and before I even put the orders in on my phone, I’m online looking up the score to see how everything went,” she said.

Celeste Percy-Beauregard’s reporting is funded by the Canadian government through its Local Journalism Initiative. The funding allows her to report on stories about Brant County. Reach her at cpercybeauregard@torstar.ca.

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