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 ...
Major League Baseball on May 28, 1957, voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants to move to the West Coast, the first two MLB teams established west of Kansas City, Mo. When the ...