Team: Los Angeles Dodgers
Sport: Baseball
Venue: Dodger Stadium
Manager: Jim Tracy
Championships: 6 - 1955, 1959, 1963,
1965, 1981, 1988
Background:The Los Angeles Dodgers
are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles,
California. They are in the Western Division of the
National League.
Founded: 1883, as a member of the
minor Inter-State League. The team moved up to the American
Association in 1884 and transferred to the National
League in 1890.
Formerly known as: Brooklyn Dodgers, 1932 to
1957, after which the team moved to Los Angeles for
the 1958 season.
Prior to declaring "Dodgers" the team nickname
in 1932, sportswriters applied a number of nicknames
to the club. They were known in various newspapers,
and at various times, as the Bridegrooms (after several
players married prior to the 1888 season), the Superbas
(under manager Ned Hanlon -- "Hanlon's Superbas"
was the name of an acrobatic troup popular at the time),
the Robins (after Wilbert Robinson, manager from 1914
through 1931) and the Trolley Dodgers -- originally
a pejorative term for Brooklyn residents, later adopted
and shortened.
Uniform colors: "Dodger blue"
and White; some Red
Logo design: a cursive "Dodgers"
superimposed over a red streaming baseball
Wild Card titles won (1): 1996
Division titles won (9): 1974, 1977,
1978, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1994, 1995
American Association pennants won (1): 1889
National League pennants won (21):
1890, 1899, 1900, 1916, 1920, 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952,
1953, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1977,
1978, 1981, 1988
World Series championships won (6): 1955,
1959, 1963, 1965, 1981, 1988
Franchise history
The Brooklyn years (through 1957)
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Upon switching leagues in 1890, the franchise became
the only one in MLB history to win pennants in different
leagues in consecutive years.
Manager Wilbert Robinson, popularly known as "Uncle
Robbie", restored the Brooklyn team to respectability,
winning pennants in 1916 and 1920 and contending perennially
for several seasons. Upon assuming the title of president,
however, Robinson's ability to focus on the field declined,
and the teams of the late 1920s became known as the
"Daffiness Boys" for their distracted, error-ridden
style of play. After his removal as club president,
Robinson returned to managing and the club's performance
rebounded somewhat.
It was during this era that Willard Mullin, perhaps
the finest cartoonist the sporting press has ever known,
fixed the Dodgers forever with the loveable nickname
of "Dem Bums" - when, after hearing his cab
driver ask "So how did those bums do today?"
Mullin decided to sketch an exaggerated version of famed
circus clown Emmett R. Kelly, Jr. to represent the Dodgers
in his much-praised cartoons in the New York World-Telegram.
Both the image and the nickname caught on, so much so
that many a Dodger yearbook cover featured a Willard
Mullin illustration with the Brooklyn Bum.
