It's now November 1, which means we don't have a whole lot of baseball games in the past on this date. We do have a few, though, thanks to some different circumstances.

The 2009 World Series had Games 4, 5 and 6 in November, thanks to the season being pushed back for the World Baseball Classic. Game 5 of the 2010 World Series, in which the Giants clinched their first title as the San Francisco Giants, came on November 1, due to too many days off between series and a bit of a late start.

The first time we saw action in November, however, came in 2001, due to the break in the schedule surrounding the tragic events on Sept. 11. The first game that ever started in November was Game 5 of the World Series between the Diamondbacks and Yankees, and it had some fireworks.

Like this Scott Brosius bomb to tie it.

And then Alfonso Soriano's single to win the game, giving the Yankees a 3-2 lead.

What an epic series that was. The D-Backs would go home to crush the Yankees in Game 6 with a 15-2 win and then take Game 7 on Luis Gonzalez's series-clincher off of legend Mariano Rivera:

The series would end up with three come-from-behind wins, which were all walkoff winners thanks to the home team taking them. In fact, the home team won every single game. There were four one-run affairs, though the other three games were blowout D-Backs wins. That helped give them a 37-14 advantage in runs scored in the series.

There was unbelievable starting pitching from stars Curt Schilling, Randy Johnson and Roger Clemens, while Miguel Batista also had a mostly forgotten gem (eight scoreless innings in Game 5).

Of all the things this all-time great series gave us, it also gave us November baseball for the first time.

And for that, it's a Happy Anniversary for us all.