37 Facts About Los Angeles Dodgers

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

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

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The Los Angeles 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.

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

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Today, the Los Angeles 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.

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

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The Dodgers won four more pennants in 1966,1974,1977 and 1978, but lost in each World Series appearance.

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The Los Angeles 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.

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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.

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

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

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

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Los Angeles officials attended the 1956 World Series looking to the Washington Senators to move to the West Coast.

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

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

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The word "Los Angeles 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Los Angeles 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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31.

Los Angeles Dodgers was replaced by former Dodgers outfielder Rick Monday.

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Koufax, Campanella, and Robinson were the first Los Angeles Dodgers to have their numbers retired, in a ceremony at Dodger Stadium on June 4,1972.

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

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In 1997,50 years after he broke the color barrier and 25 years after the Los Angeles Dodgers retired his number, Robinson's No 42 was retired throughout Major League Baseball.

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

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

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Since 1884, the Los Angeles 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.

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