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The Dodgers did not employ a General Manager until 1950. Before then, the team President had the duties commonly associated with the GM. [6] There was also no general manager between 2018 and 2021, as the President of Baseball Operations took GM duties during this period. Former GM Ned Colletti #
[7] [10] The name was later shortened to Brooklyn Dodgers. [11] Other team names used to refer to the franchise that finally came to be called "the Dodgers" were the Atlantics (1884, not directly related to the earlier Brooklyn Atlantics), Bridegrooms or Grooms (1888–1898), [12] Ward's Wonders, [13] the Superbas (1899–1910), [14] and the ...
The team did not use the name in any formal sense until 1932 when the word "Dodgers" appeared on team jerseys. [5] The "conclusive shift" came in 1933, when both home and road jerseys for the team bore the name "Dodgers". [6] Examples of how the many popularized names of the team were used are available from newspaper articles before 1932.
Major League Baseball marked the 77th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the sport’s color barrier on Monday. Robinson started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947 ...
Newcombe, who died in 2019 at 92, and Campanella, who died in 1993 at 71, would follow Robinson to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Campanella made his debut in 1948, Newcombe a year later ...
The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers season was the team's 65th season of play overall and its 58th season of play in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Dodgers finished in first place in the National League with a record of 94–60, five games ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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.
As manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers (1947; 1948–50), he won two National League pennants and served as Jackie Robinson's first permanent Major League manager. Playing career [ edit ]