All about the Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are credited with commercializing baseball. At the beginning when the teams started, all the amateur baseball games got its popularity from them. You can also purchase online Dodgers Tickets from them if you plan on attending a game that they play.
About the Dodgers
It all started with their broken nickname trolley dodgers. The reason they got this name is the dodge cars and the trains on the borough and started playing in the street area. That is how they started carrying the name Los Angeles Dodgers as they are known today, this team was called the Brooklyn Robins.This was somewhere around 1900’s. The team manager was Wilbert Robinson, who had restored the team’s reputation in the league. He did so by moving and motivating the team to reach the World Series in the years 1916 and 1920.
The Los Angeles Dodgers
Let me tell you a bit further about the Los Angeles Dodgers team. They hold the second best award for a baseball record. But sadly you don’t here much about them. The popular teams are the Red Sox, Yankees, and Angels in the American League. Also, the sports lovers chat more about the National League, it’s all about the Philadelphia Phillies and the St. Louis Cardinals. Los Angeles Dodgers have won about 90 games, and they are all very grand.
Haven’t anyone heard about Andre Ethier? If you’re not an enthusiastic baseball fan, you will not recognize the name. How about Matt Kemp, James Looney, they are all famous players back then. Have you heard of Willie Davis? The fastest man in baseball during 1960’s. He was so famous back then and carried a good name for the Dodgers baseball team. He passed away when he was 60 years old, in the month of March.
Boys of the summer the famous book
The Brooklyn Dodgers team wrote the book “Boys of the Summer” in the year 1950’s. Even though sadly they were all closer to their retiring age of baseball playing careers, they were famous for their names and reputation. The successful team players are Gil Hodges, Clem Labine, Carl Furillo and Hall of Fame centerfielder Duke Snider had their last championship victory one year after the team’s 1958 transit to Los Angeles from Brooklyn.
There was younger player were Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, and John Roseboro in 1959 team.They all started their careers with the Dodgers in Brooklyn. When the new decade of the 1960’s began, the future of the Dodgers would depend on the expansion of younger players with no ties to Brooklyn.