History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American baseball team based in Brooklyn, New York, playing in the National League from 1890 until 1957. The team was first known as the Brooklyn Bridegrooms (due to seven members of the team having been married shortly before the formation of the ballclub) and later the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers (due to Brooklyn's complex system of trolley trains at that time) before being shortened to the Brooklyn Dodgers.[1] From 1913, the team was based at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn's Flatbush section.
The Brooklyn Dodgers won 12 National League pennants and one World Series, in 1955. In 1958, the team moved to Los Angeles, California, becoming the Los Angeles Dodgers.
In other sports
The Brooklyn Dodgers was also the name of three separate american football teams existing variously between the 1930s and the 1960s; additionally, it was the name of a short-lived team in the Eastern Basketball Association during the 1977-78 season.
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