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The name Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers was first used to describe the team in 1895. [7] The nickname was still new enough in September 1895 that a newspaper reported that "'Trolley Dodgers' is the new name which eastern baseball cranks [fans] have given the Brooklyn club."
The resurrected Philadelphia Hilldale Daisies were initially slated to join the USL in 1945, but were moved to Brooklyn and renamed the Brown Dodgers. [2] The Brooklyn Dodgers provided uniforms identical to their own and leased Ebbets Field to the club. [3] In a May 7 press conference with Branch Rickey, Oscar Charleston was named as the club's ...
Following the 1891 season, the Ansonia Cuban Giants, a team composed of African-American players, were expelled from the Connecticut State League, the last white minor league to have a Black team. The Brooklyn Dodgers broke the 63-year color line when they started future Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson at first base on Opening Day, April
After winning the pennant in 1941, the Dodgers would win six pennants in 10 years between 1947 and 1956, spurred on by the likes of Jackie Robinson, the first Black player in the modern major leagues.
[111] [112] Robinson made his Royals debut at Daytona Beach's City Island Ballpark on March 17, 1946, in an exhibition game against the team's parent club, the Dodgers. Robinson thus became the first black player to openly play for a minor league team against a major league team since the de facto baseball color line had been implemented in the ...
After 45 seasons of Dodgers baseball, the stadium -- located in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood -- was demolished in 1960. A public housing project rose in its place.
The documentary focuses on the Brooklyn community's identification with the ball club, and with the perennial "wait till next year" attitude of both players and fans associated with the Dodgers' repeated inability to defeat the "upper class" New York Yankees for the World Series title, despite winning several pennants. The Brooklyn players ...
In 1945, Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was anticipating the integration of black players into Major League Baseball. Rickey, along with Gus Greenlee who was the owner of the original Pittsburgh Crawfords , created the United States League (USL) as a method to scout black players specifically to break the color line.