Los Angeles Dodgers



Los Angeles, California based Major League Baseball team, Los Angeles Dodgers was basically formed in Brooklyn New York with the name of Brooklyn Dodgers, and however the team was renamed to Los Angeles Dodgers when the team moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles before the 1958 season. Currently Los Angeles Dodgers are the members of Western Division of the National League of MLB.

During the period of mid 1850's, Brooklyn was known to be the home to some of the greatest baseball clubs in the country, and in the first convention participants there were 16 participants and out of them, 8 participants were from Brooklyn. Atlantic Eckford and Excelsior clubs were amongst these participants and remained prevailed for most part of the 1860's era. Brooklyn has played a vital role in the history of baseball on part of its promotion and exposure, in fact Brooklyn provided with the very first venue for the paid admission games in which New York and Brooklyn went toe to toe in a series of three all star match ups in 1858.

1883 saw the birth of NL Dodgers that was a formerly known as the Brooklyn Baseball Club. Team was also known as the Trolley Dodgers. The team was named Trolley Dodgers due to those of Brooklyn's pedestrians who used to dodge trolleys in the maze of street car lines. In 1884, Dodgers became the members of American Association. Later in 1888, due to the consecutive marriages of most of its players, Team was given a new name, which was Brooklyn Bridegrooms.

Induced as the an Opening Day starting pitcher in replacement for Jerry Reuss, who was unable to play due to his injury, Fernando Valenzuela a 20 year old pitcher belonging from Mexico, managed to win his first 8 decisions through mid-May due to his shutout pitching. It didn't take long for him to turn into a baseball sensation from being a Rookie. He developed a sound fan base not only in his home country of Mexico, but big number of viewers also showed up in Southern California to see him pitch. Due to this Valenzuela was also entitled the Rookie of the Year and was also the proud winner of Cy Young Award in the same season.

Dodgers' started of really well in the strike shortened split season, and it was this sound start which assured them of their playoff berth. Then later in the deciding game of National League Championship series, Dodgers' were facing Montreal Expos as their opponents. Rick Monday's two out ninth inning home run in the 5th contributed towards the teams' victory against Montreal Expos and got them into the National League Championship Series in which they were facing Yankees. Fortunately Dodgers' got themselves another victory as they defeated Yankees in the World Series in six games. By the end of it, World Series MVP award went to Pedro Guerrero, Ron Cey and Steve Yeager.

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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