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Major League Baseball players spend 7 to 8 months a year traveling from city to city playing America’s favorite past time. There are beautiful ballparks located is many of the most prominent cities throughout the United States and Canada. And when professional baseball players travel to these cities they usually get to stay in some of the nicest hotels available. When playing in Milwaukee most teams book rooms for their players at the famous Pfister Hotel. But most players find these accommodations to be a little unnerving.
For many years now professional baseball
players staying at the Pfister Hotel have reported
paranormal activity like creepy noises, strange sounds, and
other phenomena. It has led to some players being too afraid
to sleep in their rooms alone. Others have resorted to
packing things like a bible and crucifix in their luggage.
And some just simply refuse to stay there and usually end up
sleeping at a nearby motel. Most players are too embarrassed
to speak publicly about what they’ve witnessed but a few
have come forward.
St. Louis Cardinal’s shortstop Brendan Ryan
has reported seeing strange orbs of light moving through his
room.
Pitcher Trevor Hoffman, who now plays for
the Milwaukee Brewers, claims that in past years while
staying at the hotel he and other teammates would hear what
sounded like chains rattling in their rooms.
Two unnamed Florida Marlins players have
been frightened so many times that they always make it a
point to share a room now.
Infielder Adrian Beltre, while playing with
the Los Angeles Dodgers, was so frightened by the sounds he
was hearing in his room that he ended up sleeping with his
baseball bat for protection.
San Francisco Giants infielder Pablo
Sandoval claims to have heard and seen strange things in the
hotel and never looks forward to staying there.
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Mike Cameron
stayed at the hotel with his family one night during the
off-season. So many creepy things happened that night that
he moved his family to a different hotel the next day.
Minnesota Twins outfielder Carlos Gomez has
often heard strange voices in his room while staying at the
hotel. One evening, after getting out of the shower, he
noticed his I-Pod going haywire making strange static
sounds. When he picked it up it rapidly began cycling
through all of his songs. It scared him so much that he ran
out of his room and into the lobby wearing only his towel.
Today he only stays at the hotel if someone shares a room
with him. He also keeps a bible next to his bedside.
While it’s no secret that baseball players
like playing practical jokes on each other, the stories that
are told about the Pfister Hotel are hardly pranks.
Milwaukee Brewers visiting clubhouse manager, Phil Rozewicz,
says he’s been hearing the stories from baseball players for
years now. He claims many of them are so afraid to go back
to the hotel after the game that they make excuses to hang
around the ball park. One story he remembers happened to a
rookie he wouldn’t name. While staying at the hotel the
unnamed player woke in the middle of the night to find the
blinds and window to his room wide open. He was shocked
because he knew he they were both closed when he went to
sleep. He got out of bed and closed them and went back to
sleep. In the morning he awoke to find them both open again.
The next night when it happened again he left his room and
end up sleeping on a couch in the lobby. After that he spent
the remainder of the home stand staying at a motel down the
road.
The Pfister Hotel seems to bring out the worst in many ball
players too. In 1998 two Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitchers,
Marc Williams and Jeff Tabaka got into a fist fight in the
lobby which led to Tabaka having a fractured jaw and a few
weeks on the disabled list. In 1974, New York Yankee great
Bobby Murcer broke his hand while trying to break up a fight
in the hotel between two other teammates, infielder Bill
Sudakis and catcher Rick Dempsey. The next day the Yankees
lost an important game to the Brewers with their best
hitter, Murcer, too injured to play. The loss was a pivotal
point of their season and eventually led to the Yankees not
making the playoffs.
The Pfister Hotel is 116 years old and has had
many famous guests from presidents and world leaders to
famous actors, musicians, and athletes. Other guests and
employees have also reported seeing and hearing many strange
happenings in the hotel. However most claim the ghost,
believed by some to be the original owner Guido Pfister, is
harmless and usually doesn’t bother anyone. It seems he only
likes to torment the visiting baseball players when they
stay in his hotel. Apparently he’s a Brewers fan giving the
local team quite a home advantage.
