Los Angeles Dodgers

The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles, California (U.S. state). The team was founded in 1884 as the Brooklyn Atlantics of the American Association, a baseball league active during the period 1882-1891. Their first year as a National League team was in 1890 as the Brooklyn Bridegrooms.

Championships

The team has had a total of 7 championship-winning seasons in the modern era (1901 and later) of major-league baseball, winning the World Series in 1955, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981, 1988, and 2020. They were also National League champions, but lost in the World Series, 12 times, in 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1966, 1974, 1977, 1978, 2017, and 2018.

Prior to the start of the modern World Series in 1903, the team won 1 American Association title, in 1889, and 3 National League titles, in 1890, 1899, and 1900. They appeared in a 19th-century version of the World Series twice, in 1889 (as AA champion) and in 1890 (as NL champion), where the champions from the American Association and National League played each other. They lost the series in 1889 and tied in 1890. There was no World Series played in their other league-championship years of the 19th century.

Locations and Nicknames

Since the team's inception in 1884, they have been based in 2 different metropolitan areas: New York, New York (Borough of Brooklyn, 1884-1957) and Los Angeles, California (1958-present). They have played their home games at the following stadiums.

New York City metro area fields

• 1884-1890: Washington Park
• 1886-1889: Ridgewood Park (Sundays only)
• 1891-1897: Eastern Park
• 1898-1912: "New" Washington Park
• 1913-1957: Ebbets Field
• 1956-1957: Roosevelt Stadium (Jersey City, New Jersey; 7 games per season)

Los Angeles home fields

• 1958-1961: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
• 1962-present: Dodger Stadium

They have been known by 7 different nicknames:

• 1884 only: Atlantics
• 1885-1887: Grays
• 1888-1890: and 1896-1898 Bridegrooms
• 1891-1895: Grooms
• 1899-1910: and 1913 Superbas
• 1911-1912: and 1932-present Dodgers
• 1914-1931: Robins

Retired Numbers

The following uniform numbers are retired in that players, managers, and coaches of the team will no longer use them.

• 1 Pee Wee Reese
• 2 Tommy Lasorda
• 4 Duke Snider
• 14 Gil Hodges
• 19 Jim Gilliam
• 20 Don Sutton
• 24 Walter Alston
• 32 Sandy Koufax
• 39 Roy Campanella
• 42 Jackie Robinson (retired across major league baseball, Robinson played his entire major-league career with the Dodgers)
• 53 Don Drysdale