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Updated · Fox News · Oct 23

Milwaukee's 133-Year-Old Pfister Hotel Draws World Series Spotlight as MLB Players Recount Ghost Scares

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Updated · Fox News · Oct 23

Milwaukee's 133-Year-Old Pfister Hotel Draws World Series Spotlight as MLB Players Recount Ghost Scares

Q: Will the spooky reputation of the Pfister Hotel give the Milwaukee Brewers an unexpected home-field advantage on Halloween night?

Probably not in any measurable way, though it could add a bit of psychological discomfort for some visiting players. The Pfister Hotel’s reputation is real in baseball culture. Over the years, players including Carlos Gomez, Bryce Harper and others have described strange experiences there, while some, such as Mookie Betts, have reportedly chosen to stay elsewhere rather than risk an uneasy night. If a World Series Game 7 were played in Milwaukee on Halloween, that lore would naturally get even more attention. But there is no evidence that the hotel has ever produced a tangible competitive edge on the field. Home-field advantage in baseball is usually driven by familiar surroundings, crowd noise, travel routines, bullpen usage and matchup quality, not ghost stories. The Brewers’ actual edge would come far more from playing at American Family Field and from their roster strengths than from anything at the Pfister. That said, the hotel could matter at the margins. Sleep disruption, pregame anxiety or players getting distracted by the hotel’s history and rumors are plausible factors, especially in a high-pressure setting like a winner-take-all Game 7. Even if a player does not believe in ghosts, the stories can become part of the mental backdrop. So the Pfister’s spooky image may help Milwaukee as folklore and as a source of visiting-team nerves, but any Halloween-night advantage would likely be more psychological theater than a decisive baseball factor.

2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 23

Milwaukee’s Pfister Hotel is back in focus as the city hosts its first World Series in 44 years, reviving the long-running claim that some visiting MLB players avoid the property.
Game 1 between the Brewers and Rays is set for Friday at American Family Field, putting the downtown four-star hotel under fresh attention because teams, celebrities and officials commonly stay there.
Carlos Gomez said in 2009 that voices and a malfunctioning iPod sent him fleeing to the lobby, while a rookie described by a Brewers clubhouse manager later abandoned his room and moved to a motel.
Opened in 1893 at a cost of nearly $1 million, the hotel has leaned into the lore, with a former general manager saying the supposed ghost is Charles Pfister, guarding the hotel’s hospitality legacy.
If the Series reaches Game 7, the spotlight on the Pfister could intensify further with a Halloween-night decider scheduled in Milwaukee.

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Will the spooky reputation of the Pfister Hotel give the Milwaukee Brewers an unexpected home-field advantage on Halloween night?

Why do elite MLB players fear a historic Milwaukee luxury hotel enough to sleep with baseball bats during the World Series?

Could the extreme psychological stress of the World Series be causing visiting baseball stars to hallucinate ghosts at the Pfister Hotel?

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Fox News1h ago

Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel Draws World Series Focus for Haunted Reputation Among MLB Players

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Brewers-Rays will produce a first-time champion, and maybe the first all-indoor World Series

Milwaukee's 133-Year-Old Pfister Hotel Draws World Series Spotlight as MLB Players Recount Ghost Scares

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