Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. Established in 1883 in the city of Brooklyn, the team joined the National League in 1890 as the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. After 68 seasons in Brooklyn, Dodgers owner and president Walter O’Malley relocated the franchise to Los Angeles before the 1958 season. The team won their first World Series title in 1955, defeating the New York Yankees for the first time.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. Established in 1883 in the city of Brooklyn, the team joined the National League in 1890 as the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. After 68 seasons in Brooklyn, Dodgers owner and president Walter O’Malley relocated the franchise to Los Angeles before the 1958 season. The team won their first World Series title in 1955, defeating the New York Yankees for the first time. The Dodgers have won a record 24 National League pennants and seven World Series championships. As of 2020, Forbes ranks the Dodgers second in MLB franchise valuation at USD 3. 4 billion. The team maintains a fierce rivalry with the San Francisco Giants dating back to when the two clubs were based in New York City. They have won 18 Rookie of the Year Award winners, twice as many as the next club, including four consecutive from 1979 to 1982 and five consecutive from 1992 to 1996. Eleven NL MVP award winners have played for the Dodgers, winning a total of 14. Eight Cy Young Award winners have pitched for the club, winning 12—by far the most of any Major League franchise. After a 32-year drought, which included 12 postseason appearances in a 17-year span and eight consecutive division titles from 2013 to 2020, the Dodgers won the 2020 World Series. They beat the Chicago White Sox in six games in 1959 and the Minnesota Twins in seven in 1965, edging the Twins in four games in 1963 and edging them in four in 1966.
The Los Angeles team won four more pennants in the 1960s and two more World Series titles in the 1970s, sweeping the Yankees in 1966 and 1966. In the 1980s, Mexican phenom pitcher Fernando Valenzuela quickly became a sensation—affectionately referred to as “Fernandomania”—when he led the team as a rookie to another championship in 1981. He became the first and, to date, the only player to ever win the Cy Young and Rookie Of the Year awards in the same season. In the 1930s the team officially adopted the Dodgers nickname, which had been in use since the 1890s, named after the Brooklyn pedestrians who dodged the streetcars in theCity of Brooklyn. In 1941 the Dodgers lost the World Series to the Boston Red Sox, only to lose to the Yankees again in 1941. This marked the onset of the Dodgers–Yankees rivalry, as the Dodgers would face them in their next six World Series appearances. It was also during this period that the Dodgers made history by breaking the baseball color line in 1947 with the debut of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to ever play in the Major Leagues. In their second season the Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles. In 1957 the team left Brooklyn and won their second title, beating the Chicago Sox in just six games. In 1958 the team moved to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before moving to their current home of Dodger Stadium in 1962.
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