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Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The team play in the Western Division of the National League. The team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known as the Brooklyn Dodgers. It moved to Los Angeles before the 1958 season.
Franchise history:
Early Brooklyn baseball:
Beginning in the mid-1850s, Brooklyn was home to outstanding baseball clubs. In the first convention, Eight of 16 participants were from Brooklyn. These included the Atlantic, Eckford and Excelsior clubs that combined to dominate play for most of the 1860s. Brooklyn had great contributions in making baseball commercial. It has the honor of being the venue of the first paid admission games, a series of three all star contests matching New York and Brooklyn in 1858.
Brooklyn Dodgers
The Brooklyn baseball club that eventually became the NL Dodgers was established in 1883. The following year, the team joined the upstart American Association. Originally the Brooklyn team was known as the "Trolley Dodgers," . It was a reference to Brooklyn pedestrians who "dodged" the trollies that ran over the maze of streetcar lines that criss-crossed Brooklyn. In 1888, the team became popular as the "Brooklyn Bridegrooms” due to marriages of several of the team's players in succession.
1980s: Fernandomania and the Bulldog:
A 20-year-old rookie Fernando Valenzuela from Mexico was the Opening Day starting pitcher for 1981. He was pressed into service due to an injury to Jerry Reuss. Valenzuela pitched a shutout that day, and was successful in proceeding to win his first 8 decisions through mid-May. He became a sensation.
Huge crowds turned out to see him pitch both in Southern California and in his home country of Mexico. “Fernandomania” gripped both the places. Valenzuela has the distinction of becoming the only pitcher ever to be named Rookie of the Year and win the Cy Young Award in the same season.
In the strike-shortened split season, the Dodgers' torrid start assured them of a playoff berth. With the help of a ninth-inning two-out home run by Rick Monday in the 5th, they were successful in defeating the Montreal Expos in the deciding game of the National League Championship Series. They proceeded to defeat the Yankees in the World Series in six games. Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager shared the World Series MVP award.
1988 World Series Championship Team:
The 1988 Championship is all the more magical for the Dodgers. They were hardly baseball's best team on paper. They enjoyed career years from several players. The fiery intensity of newcomer Kirk Gibson, as well as the quiet but steady Hershiser and the always ebullient Lasorda had great inspiration for the team. Kirk Gibson was the league's Most Valuable Player that year.Although they entered the NLCS as decided underdogs to the powerful New York Mets, the Dodgers prevailed in a thrilling back-and-forth series that went the entire 7 games. The Oakland Athletics, who owned baseball's best regular-season record with 104 wins against only 58 defeats were more powerful opponent of the Dodgers in the Worlds Series.
Other historical notes:
Team nickname
Prior to the declaration of an official team nickname in 1933, a number of nicknames were applied to the club by sportswriters and fans. The Brooks and the Bridegrooms were the early nicknames.Writers began calling the city and the team by the somewhat pejorative term Trolley Dodgers when the streetcar lines were set up in Brooklyn. Later on, It became shortened to Dodgers.
After a popular (though unrelated) acrobatic troupe at that time called "Hanlon's Superbas.", the team became known as the Superbas under manager Ned Hanlon (1899-1905). The team was known as the Robins under manager Wilbert Robinson (1914-1931). Until 1933, No nickname was acknowledged on team uniforms. Prior to that, they had sported either the word "Brooklyn" or a stylized letter "B." The team is also known as The Blue Crew.
Rivalry with the Giants
The historic and heated rivalry between the Dodgers and the Giants is more than a century old. The rivalry started when both clubs played in New York City (the Dodgers in Brooklyn and the Giants in Manhattan). Both franchises were moved to California in 1958. Throughout the history of the State of California, the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco have long been rivals in economic, cultural, and political arenas, therefore, the rivalry was easily transplanted with them. The Giants are called "The Gnats" or "The Jints" by Dodger fans but then again, fans in Brooklyn referred to their team as "dem Bums."
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