Brooklyn Dodgers

The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American baseball team based in Brooklyn, New York, playing in the National League from 1890 until 1957. The team was first known as the Brooklyn Bridegrooms (due to seven members of the team having been married shortly before the formation of the ballclub) and later the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers (due to Brooklyn's complex system of trolley trains at that time) before being shortened to the Brooklyn Dodgers. From 1913,... more

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