Well, it's that time of year again. Major League Baseball is winding down to the two teams that will represent the American and National Leagues in the World Series.
Alas, my beloved St. Louis Cardinals are not in the mix. The reasons why would be a whole other angry fan story. But it is also that time of year for ghosts, goblins, and other strange happenings to make themselves known, or maybe we just notice them more.
Either way, now there is a spooky good reason to combine the two. Whether you believe it or not, it's a pretty good ghost story.
For the first two games of the National League Championship Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers, like most Major League Baseball (MLB) teams when they are in Milwaukee to play the Brewers, stayed at the iconic Pfister Hotel. It is a beautiful hotel, more than a century old.
But along with the exquisite accommodations comes an added bonus: the Pfister Hotel may be haunted. So haunted, in fact, that during the Dodgers' recent stay in Milwaukee, outfielder Teoscar Hernandez had to find another hotel to stay at because the Pfister's reputation was too much for his wife.
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Hernandez said of the couple's move to another hotel,
“I don’t believe in ghosts. I have stayed in there before. I’ve never seen anything or heard anything. But my wife is on this trip, and she said she doesn’t want to stay there. So we have to find another hotel. But I’ve been hearing from other players and other wives that it’s something happening in these couple of nights.”
Hernandez's teammate, Mookie Betts, is also not taking any chances on unwanted supernatural guests in his room and also found another place to stay. But for Teoscar Hernandez, happy wife, happy life. Smart man.
Tales of things going bump in the night are not new at the Pfister. As far back as 2001, former Dodgers third baseman Adrian Beltre said he heard knocking on his door while both the TV and air conditioner were turned off.
The ghosts of the Pfister seemed particularly busy in 2009. Then-Giants infielder Pablo Sandoval had this tale to tell: "I went to take a shower, and I remember putting my iPod next to a speaker. When I came out, it was playing music, and I have no idea why."
Also in 2009, former Cardinals infielder Brendan Ryan experienced the "extras" of the Pfister. He said the TV in his room went off and on by itself. He said, "It was more like a moving light that kind of passed through the room." He added that "the room got a little bit chillier."
But maybe the spookiest incident was that of former Nationals first baseman Bryce Harper in 2012. He said,
"I laid a pair of jeans and a shirt on that table at the foot of the bed. When I woke up in the morning - I swear on everything - the clothes were on the floor and the table was on the opposite side of the room."
Harper immediately confronted teammates, thinking they were playing late-night pranks, but they swore nothing like that happened. Harper said he promptly changed rooms.
So, who is responsible for the spooky extracurricular activities? The hotel was built in 1893 by Charles Pfister, whose father, Guido Pfister, was a leather tycoon. Charles completed the hotel that his father envisioned to be the finest hotel in the West.
The best guess of locals is that Charles is the spectral culprit. There have been reports of seeing apparitions of the younger Pfister roaming a staircase, making knocking and pounding sounds, and, as Brendan Ryan reported, electronics being turned on and off, and objects moving.
For grown men who are able-bodied professional athletes to dread a stay in the Pfister, you have to wonder, who or what is lurking in the hallway?
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