A reader shares her memories of rooting for the underdog Dodgers as a kid growing up on Long Island in the 1950s.
To the editor: It was considered outre to be a Brooklyn Dodgers fan on Long Island, where I lived and where most people followed the Yankees or the Giants. I was 13 years old in 1955 when the ...
But long before the Yankees were formed in 1903, there was another New York City team: The Dodgers were Brooklyn’s darlings until 1958, when they moved to Los Angeles. My 91-year-old grandfather ...
The Dodgers polished off the New York Yankees four games to one to secure the club’s eighth World Series title and seventh since relocating from Brooklyn before the 1958 season.
The Los Angeles Dodgers won the 2024 World Series and while so few people actually want to hear it -- because OMG PAYROLL! -- they did so in the face of an awful lot of injury adversity.
The Dodgers originally were the “Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers,” formed in 1895. Not until 1932 was their name officially the “Brooklyn Dodgers.” Why “Trolley?” Before invention of the electric trolley, ...
It would be easy to miss the plaque in a parking lot that was once Ebbets Field, but the managers of a nearby apartment complex are happy to help.
While this year's competition has been a battle of the coasts, both franchises called New York home before 1958, with the Yankees based in the Bronx and the Dodgers based in Brooklyn. With Hall of ...
One of the most important free agents the Los Angeles Dodgers will have to decide on is outfielder Teoscar Hernández. Hernández, who signed with the Dodgers on a one-year, $23 million deal last ...
The debate this week in the Adler household is about who the late family patriarch, Marty Adler, would root for in the 2024 World Series. The Yankees — or, the Los Angeles Dodgers? "I can’t ...
For Brooklyn Borough Historian Ron Schweiger, the Dodgers are, and always will be, Brooklyn's team. "The fans had to dodge the trolley cars crossing the streets to get to the ballpark. So ...