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What baseball team was supposed to move to Los Angeles before the Dodgers?
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What city originally did the Dodgers come from?
The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles, California, USA. The team is in the Western Division of the National League. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known as the Brooklyn Dodgers, before moving to Los Angeles before the 1958 season
What was the dodgers baseball field named when Jackie Robinson played?
Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. Robinson retired before the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles.
What was the origanial name of the Los Angeles Dodgers?
Depends how far back you wanna go. In Minor League competition, they were originally the Brooks, the Atlantics and the Bridgegooms. They became a Major League Baseball team and joined the National League in 1890, and then they were known as the Superbas and later the Robins before they officially became the Dodgers. They were the Brooklyn Dodgers before moving to Los Angeles, becoming the Los Angeles Dodgers for the 1958 season.
Were the Brooklyn Dodgers the only baseball league for African American and white players before the 1940s?
No. The Brooklyn Dodgers were a Major League team who became the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1958.
What was the name of the stadium where the dodgers played before moving to los angeles?
the name of the dodgers stadium before they moved to la was ebbets stadium their last game there was September 24 1957.
Where did the dodgers played when they came to los Angeles?
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for four seasons before they moved into Dodger Stadium in 1962.
Does he still go and watch dodgers play?
Shakespeare never watched Dodgers games. He died before baseball was invented.
Where did the dodgers play before dodger stadium?
When the Dodgers first moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles they played their games at the Collisuem, where the USC Trojans now host their football games.
Who won the series in1974 World Series?
The Oakland Athletics defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in 5 games. It would be their last championship before the earthquake-ridden 1989 World Series. The A's would face the Dodgers again in 1988, with the Dodgers coming up on top.
Why does New York have two baseball teams?
Some major league cities are large enough to support two teams. The New York Yankees are in the American League, while the New York Mets are in the National League. Before 1958, New York had three teams -- the Yankees, the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Where did the Angels baseball team get their name?
They started out as the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers. The name comes from so many trolley tracks in the city of Brooklyn that people were dodging and it was a popular nickname for people who lived there. It was later shortened to Dodgers.
Did the team have another name before it was called the Los Angeles Dodgers?
The LA Dodgers were once the Brooklyn Dodgers. In the late 1950s, both the Dodgers and Giants (then a New York team) moved to California. Yes, they were known as the Brooklyn Dodgers when the team was in Brooklyn. They were also known as The Brooklyn Bums or just 'Da Bums. They were the working man's team as opposed to the mighty Yankees who were known as the elitist man's team: the blue collar vs. the white collar teams. During the period from the '30's through the early 50s, the Dodgers were also refered to as the Robins. In the 19th Century, before they were re-named the Dodgers, they were called the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. The Dodgers were known as the Robins out of respect to their Hall of Fame manager Wilbert Robinson during the 1910s and 1920s. Brooklyn Bridegrooms, 1890-1898 Brooklyn Superbas, 1899-1910 Brooklyn Dodgers, 1911-1913 Brooklyn Robins, 1914-1931 Brooklyn Dodgers, 1932-1957 Los Angeles Dodgers, 1958-present
