Before moving to Los Angeles, the Dodgers resided in Brooklyn under a series of different names from 1883 to 1957. The franchise was known as the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers in 1911 and 1912 ...
1957. The Dodgers, who were in Brooklyn at the time, purchased a Convair 440 two-engine airplane for more than $700,000, which had room for 44 passengers. Before the Dodgers bought their new team ...
Carl Erskine, whose pitching prowess helped the Brooklyn Dodgers end their championship drought in 1955, died Tuesday. He was ...
The Dodgers left Ebbets Field for good in 1957, never to return. The borough went into mourning a second time on Aug. 27, 1972, when the Brooklyn-based Ebinger bakery chain closed its doors.