The Phillies are among only a few teams to play on Halloween

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The baseball season was starting to get long in the past couple of years, the World Series usually always ended in the middle of October but with the many schedule adjustments over the years, and rainouts, we've seen the baseball season extended to November on several occasions.

 The World Series has only seen 3 games played with the teams actually playing on Halloween. Two of those three times have come in the last couple years. The Phillies were one of the teams that have played on Halloween. This game of course coming in 2009 when the Phillies were playing the New York Yankees for Game 3 in the series. The Phillies went on to lose this game 8-5.

The game was in Philadelphia and the temperature at game time was a comfortable 70 degrees, what a difference between then and now isn't it? The other times that teams played on Halloween was in 2010 just last year, with the Texas Rangers playing the San Francisco Giants. Before that we have to go back to 2001 for the Yankees vs. the Diamondbacks in the World Series that year, the Dbacks won that series in 7 games.



Here is a list of MLB players born on Halloween (thanks to Baseball-Reference):

Rk		Born	Yrs	From	To
1	Yamaico Navarro	1987	2	2010	2011
2	Javy Guerra	1985	1	2011	2011
3	Andy Parrino	1985	1	2011	2011
4	Anthony Varvaro	1984	2	2010	2011
5	Luis Mendoza	1983	5	2007	2011
6	Alex Hinshaw	1982	2	2008	2009
7	Jared Wells	1981	1	2008	2008
8	Mike Napoli	1981	6	2006	2011
9	Steve Cox	1974	4	1999	2002
10	David Dellucci	1973	13	1997	2009
11	Tim Byrdak	1973	10	1998	2011
12	Chris Clemons	1972	1	1997	1997
13	Steve Trachsel	1970	16	1993	2008
14	Oreste Marrero	1969	2	1993	1996
15	Damon Mashore	1969	3	1996	1998
16	Ed Taubensee	1968	11	1991	2001
17	Brian Keyser	1966	2	1995	1996
18	Steve Rosenberg	1964	4	1988	1991
19	Fred McGriff	1963	19	1986	2004
20	Mike Smith	1963	2	1989	1990
21	Matt Nokes	1963	11	1985	1995
22	Mike Gallego	1960	13	1985	1997
23	Paul Zuvella	1958	9	1982	1991
24	Ray Soff	1958	2	1986	1987
25	Dave Freisleben	1951	6	1974	1979
26	Mickey Rivers	1948	15	1970	1984
27	John Hoffman	1943	2	1964	1965
28	Bill Voss	1943	8	1965	1972
29	Fred Klages	1943	2	1966	1967
30	Dave McNally	1942	14	1962	1975
31	Ed Spiezio	1941	9	1964	1972
32	Ed Stroud	1939	6	1966	1971
33	Jim Donohue	1938	2	1961	1962
34	Dave Tyriver	1937	1	1962	1962
35	Carl Boles	1934	1	1962	1962
36	Ken Keltner	1916	13	1937	1950
37	Warren Huston	1913	2	1937	1944
38	Ray Treadaway	1907	1	1930	1930
39	Allyn Stout	1904	6	1931	1943
40	Ray Flaskamper	1901	1	1927	1927
41	Tony Rego	1897	2	1924	1925
42	Leo Dickerman	1896	3	1923	1925
43	Ray O'Brien	1894	1	1916	1916
44	Ken Crawford	1894	1	1915	1915
45	Bill Herring	1893	1	1915	1915
46	Ed Burns	1887	7	1912	1918
47	Alex Malloy	1886	1	1910	1910
48	Bert Daniels	1882	5	1910	1914
49	Ed Fisher	1876	1	1902	1902
50	Harry Smith	1874	10	1901	1910
51	Dan Bickham	1864	1	1886	1886
52	Hardie Henderson	1862	6	1883	1888
53	Kick Kelly	1856	1	1879	1879

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 10/30/2011.