Red Sox and Cardinal precedents.

Boston leads St. Louis in games 3-2 in the Major Baseball League (MBL) tournament finals.  Boston has something this year that it did have not in previous years when it played games 6 and/or 7 at home: home rule advantage, i.e., the designated hitter (DH).  American Conference team rosters are built for that.  National Conference teams are not.

Do the same people attend each game in Fenway Park?  See figures below for 2013, 1975, 1967 and my previous post: Boston Whiteskins.

2013 World Series (3-2): Boston Red Sox (97-65) leads St. Louis Cardinals (97-65)

Attendance in Fenway Park for games:
1. 38,345
2. 38,346
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1975 World Series (4-3): Cincinnati Reds (108-54) over Boston Red Sox (95-65)

Boston won game 6 but lost game 7 at home.

Interestingly, Boston had the exact same attendance in all four games in Fenway Park: 35,205.  Maybe it was just an accounting thing.  In Cincinnati the attendance was different for each of the three games.
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1967 World Series (4-3): St. Louis Cardinals (101-60) over Boston Red Sox (92-70)

Boston won game 6 but lost game 7 at home.  Bob Gibson won games 1, 4, 7, the only pitcher to do that.  All three Gibson wins were nine inning complete games.

Attendance in Fenway Park for games:
1. 34,796
2. 35,188
6. 35,188
7. 35,188
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1946 World Series (4-3): St. Louis Cardinals (98-58) over Boston Red Sox (104-50)

St. Louis won games six and seven at home.  Different attendance for each of the three games in Fenway Park.

Harry Brecheen pitched complete game Cardinals victories in games 2 and 6, then two days later won game 7 pitching innings 8 and 9.  In the 8th Brecheen entered with the Cardinals up 3-1, 2 on, no outs.  Brecheen retired the first two batters but allowed a double to Dom DiMaggio to tie the game 3-3.  In the bottom of the 8th Harry Walker doubled in Enos Slaughter for a 4-3 Cardinal lead.  That's the famous two out Slaughter dash from first.  In the top of the 9th Brecheen allowed singles to Rudy York and Bobby Doerr but pitched out of it for the win.
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1934 World Series (4-3): St. Louis Cardinals (95-58) over Detroit Tigers (101-53)

St. Louis won games six and seven in Detroit.  In game seven St. Louis scored 7 runs in the third inning to break it open.  Starting the bottom of the 6th with St. Louis leading 9-0 Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis removed St. Louis left fielder Joe Medwick for his own protection when Detroit fans threw things at him because of his hard slide into third base,
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1918 World Series (4-2): Boston Red Sox (75-51) over Chicago Cubs (84-45)

The season was short because of World War I.  The first three games against the Cubs were played in Chicago at Comiskey Park, home of the White Sox.  I don't know why Wrigley Field was not used.  War time travel restrictions would account for there being only one change of venue.  There was one off day for travel then the final four games were scheduled to be played in Boston.  Because of that the final game could only be in Boston.

The Red Sox won game six at Fenway Park before 15,238 fans.  Carl Mays beat Lefty Tyler 2-1; both pitched complete games.

Babe Ruth pitching with Boston Red Sox,
Cominsky Park, 1914(SDN-059778,
Chicago Daily News negatives collection,
 Chicago Historical Society)

Babe Ruth was the starting pitcher in games 1 and 4; Ruth won both.  Ruth's record of 29 consecutive scoreless World Series innings ended in the 8th inning of game four.  Boston led 2-0 but Ruth allowed the Cubs to tie the game.  In the bottom of the 8th Cubs starter Lefty Tyler was relieved by Phil Douglas who made a throwing error on a sacrifice bunt to allow the lead run to score.  Red Sox up 3-2.  In the 9th Ruth allowed a single and walk and was relieved: Bullet Joe Bush replaced George Whiteman (LF) pitching and batting 4th Babe Ruth moved from P to LF.  Ruth was batting 6th.  Bush retired two batters, the second on a game ending double play.

Ruth did not start any other games as a non-pitcher but entered the 6th and final game in Fenway Park to play left field replacing clean up hitter Whiteman in the 8th with two out, no runners, Red Sox up 2-1; Ruth did not bat.  Ruth had tied for the American League home run lead with Tillie Walker; each had 11.  Ruth would set single season home run records in each of the next three seasons:
1919 29 Red Sox home park: Fenway Park
1920 54 Yankees home park: Polo Grounds
1921 59 Yankees home park: Polo Grounds.

Thus was born the "Curse of the Bambino", the transfer of Babe Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees.  In 1927 Ruth broke his own record for the final time with 60 home runs playing his home games in Yankee Stadium.