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The Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers have appeared in the World Series 22 times, while the New York/San Francisco Giants have appeared in the World Series 20 times. The Dodgers and Giants are tied with (8) World Series titles. When the two teams were based in New York, the Giants won five World Series championships, and the Dodgers one.
They remained in Brooklyn, New York, 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]
In 2007, the Los Angeles Dodgers sent three players (Brad Penny, Takashi Saito, and Russell Martin) to the all-star game, and at one point, the Dodgers had a record of 54–41, which was then the best record in the National League. After a hitting slump, the Dodgers fell to 60–59, and seven games out of first place in the N.L. West. The ...
The story of Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers' move to Los Angeles were further chronicled by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, figured into the plot of the film Field of Dreams, were featured in an entire episode of Ken Burns' acclaimed public-television documentary Baseball, as well as a 2007 HBO documentary called Brooklyn Dodgers: Ghosts ...
The Brooklyn Bridegrooms pose for their 1888 team portrait. Their stars were "Parisian" Bob Caruthers, middle row third from left, Dave Orr, middle row third from right, and Dave Foutz, back row ...
Eventually, in the late 1950s, the city proposed to Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley that an entirely separate plot of land (a plot not part of or close to Chavez Ravine) be used as the site of a baseball stadium for the Dodgers team, which was exploring a move from Brooklyn's Ebbets Field to Los Angeles. O'Malley declined the original ...
Dodger Stadium is a ballpark in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.It is the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Opened in 1962, it was constructed in less than three years at a cost of US$23 million (US$239 million in 2024).
Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, where it was known as the Brooklyn Dodgers, before moving to Los Angeles for the 1958 season. A total of 57 players, managers, and executives in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum , plus four broadcasters who have received the Hall's Ford C. Frick Award , spent some or part of ...