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How Did the L.A. Dodgers Get Their Name and Where Did the Baseball Team Come From?

June 23, 2020 by Karen Hill

Before moving to Los Angeles, the Dodgers were based in Brooklyn, New York.

The team had originated in the nineteenth century when, because of the dangers of horse-drawn trolleys and carriages, the pedestrians of Brooklyn called themselves “trolley dodgers.”

Because most of their working-class fans had to dodge traffic on their walk to the games, the Brooklyn baseball team named themselves the “Dodgers” in their honor.

When the team moved to L.A. in the 1950s, they took the name with them.

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About Karen Hill

Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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