39 Facts About Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles.

The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the National League West division.

The Dodgers found immediate success in Los Angeles by winning the 1959 World Series, representing the franchise's first championship since moving to Los Angeles.

The Dodgers were victorious in 1988, upsetting their heavily favored opponent in each series and becoming the first and only franchise to win multiple titles in the 80s.

One of the most successful and storied franchises in MLB, the Dodgers have won seven World Series championships and a record 24 National League pennants.

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Today, the Dodgers are among the most popular MLB teams, enjoying large fan support both at home and on the road; they are widely seen as the most dominant team in the National League in the present day.

In 1941, the Dodgers captured their third National League pennant, only to lose to the New York Yankees.

In just their second season in Los Angeles, the Dodgers won their second World Series title, beating the Chicago White Sox in six games in 1959.

The Dodgers won the pennant in 2017 for the first time since their world series victory in 1988, aided by a Justin Turner walk-off home run on the same night of Gibson's iconic walk-off home run 29 years earlier.

The Dodgers won the pennant in 2018 for a second year in a row, moving on to lose to the Boston Red Sox in 5 games.

In Brooklyn, the Dodgers won the NL pennant twelve times and the World Series in 1955.

Dodgers were founded in 1883 as the Brooklyn Atlantics, borrowing the name of a defunct team that had played in Brooklyn before them.

Dodgers was the inaugural recipient of the Rookie of the Year award, which is named the Jackie Robinson Award in his honor.

The blue background used by the Dodgers was adopted by the Mets, honoring their New York NL forebears with a blend of Dodgers blue and Giants orange.

Dodgers were the first Major League Baseball team to ever play in Los Angeles.

Since moving to Los Angeles, the Dodgers have won 12 more National League Championships and six more World Series rings.

Sportswriters started using the name "Trolley Dodgers" to refer to the Brooklyn team early in the 1895 season.

The word "Dodgers" was first used on the front of the team's home jersey in 1933; the uniform was then white with red pinstripes and a stylized "B" on the left shoulder.

The Dodgers wore green outlined uniforms and green caps throughout the 1937 season but reverted to blue the following year.

In 1970, the Dodgers removed the city name from the road jerseys and had "Dodgers" on both the home and away uniforms.

The city script returned to the road jerseys in 1999, and the tradition-rich Dodgers flirted with an alternate uniform for the first time since 1944 .

In 2014, the Dodgers introduced an alternate road jersey: a gray version with the "Dodgers" script instead of the city name.

Since its introduction the road jersey with the "Dodgers" script was used more often than the road jersey with the "Los Angeles" script, so much that the team now considers it as a primary road uniform.

In 2018, the Dodgers wore their 60th anniversary patch to honor the 60 years of being in Los Angeles.

In 2021, the Dodgers again unveiled a blue alternate uniform, this time as part of the "City Connect" series in collaboration with Nike.

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Dodgers have been groundbreaking in their signing of players from Asia; mainly Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

The Dodgers were the second team to start a Japanese player in recent history, pitcher Hideo Nomo, the first team to start a South Korean player, pitcher Chan Ho Park, and the first Taiwanese player, Chin-Feng Chen.

The Dodgers had a heated rivalry with the Cincinnati Reds during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.

The 2010 World Series was the Giants' first championship since moving to California, while the Dodgers had won six World Series titles since their move, their last title coming in the 2020 World Series.

Padres-Dodgers rivalry has often been lopsided in favor of the Dodgers, however; recent growth between the two teams in competition has added intensity on top of proximity between Los Angeles and San Diego.

The Dodgers have not fared as well against the Cardinals in the postseason.

In five prior postseason series matchups, the Cardinals have won four with the Dodgers winning only the 2009 NLDS and the 2021 National League Wild Card Game.

In 2007, the Dodgers set a franchise record for single-season attendance, attracting over 3.

Primarily, Dodgers fans are from their own location in southern California and parts of southern Nevada.

Dodgers is a recipient of the Baseball Hall of Fame's Ford C Frick Award for broadcasters .

The Dodgers retired his number two days after his death, prior to Game 1 of the 1978 World Series.

In 2017, the Dodgers honored broadcaster Vin Scully with a microphone displayed alongside the team's retired numbers.

Dodgers have not issued the number 34 since the departure of Fernando Valenzuela in 1991, although it has not been officially retired.

Since 1884, the Dodgers have used a total of 31 Managers, the most current being Dave Roberts, who was appointed following the 2015 postseason, after the departure of Don Mattingly.