Brooklyn Dodgers

Brooklyn Dodgers
Brooklyn Dodgers/Superbas logo from 1910 through 1913
Information
League	National League (1890–1957)
Ballpark	Ebbets Field (1913–1957)
Established	1883; 141 years ago (1883)
Folded	1957; 67 years ago (1957) (moved to Los Angeles, California in 1958)
Nickname(s)	Dem Bums
National League pennant	12 (1890, 1899, 1900, 1916, 1920, 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956)
World Series championships	1 (1955)
Former name(s)	Brooklyn Robins (1914–1931) Brooklyn Dodgers (1913) Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers (1911–1912) Brooklyn Superbas (1899–1910) Brooklyn Bridegrooms (1896–1898) Brooklyn Grooms (1891–1895) Brooklyn Bridegrooms (1888–1890) Brooklyn Grays (1885–1887) Brooklyn Atlantics (1884) Brooklyn Grays (1883)
Former league(s)	American Association (1884–1889)
Former ballparks	Washington Park (II) (1898–1912) Eastern Park (1891–1897) Ridgewood Park (1886–1889)[a] Washington Park (I) (1884–1890)
Colors	Dodger blue, white, red
Manager	See list

The Brooklyn Dodgers were a Major League Baseball team founded in 1883 as the Brooklyn Grays, next year in 1884 becoming a member of the American Association as the Brooklyn Atlantics before joining the National League in 1890. They remained in Brooklyn until 1957, after which the club moved to Los Angeles, California, where it continues its history as the Los Angeles Dodgers. The team moved west at the same time as its longtime rival, the New York Giants, moved to San Francisco in northern California as the San Francisco Giants.^[1]

The team's name derived from the reputed skill of Brooklyn residents at evading the city's trolley streetcars. The name is a shortened form of one of their former names, the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, and they later earned the respectful nickname Dem Bums. The Dodgers played in two stadiums in South Brooklyn, each named Washington Park, and at Eastern Park in the neighborhood of Brownsville before moving to Ebbets Field in the neighborhood of Crown Heights in 1912. The team is noted for signing Jackie Robinson in 1947 as the first black player in the modern major leagues.^[1]

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