* 107: Yankees home games in the World Series, including last night. Including the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants and the Mets, there have been 189 Fall Classic games played in New York.
* The Phillies are 6-0 in the first game of postseason series in the last 2 years.
* Also among the crowd of 50,207: Alec Baldwin, Jeff Gordon, Rudy Giuliani, Kate Hudson, Spike Lee, Matthew McConaughey, Mark Messier and Kurt Russell.
* From 2005 through this year, the only team to appear in the World Series more than once is the Phillies.
* The American League leads in World Series wins, 61-43, but the NL has won two of the last 3 years.
* This is the third straight year that a different AL East team has been in the World Series. The Yankees follow the Rays (2008) and Red Sox (2007).
* The team with the homefield advantage has won 18 of the last 23 World Series. The exceptions: 1992 Blue Jays (over Atlanta), 1999 Yankees (over Atlanta), 2003 Marlins (over Yankees), 2006 Cardinals (over Detroit) and the Phillies last year.
Send e-mail to hagenp@phillynews.com
