Los Angeles Dodgers

The Los Angeles Dodgers jersey has changed very little in the team’s seventy year history in Los Angeles. When the Dodgers first played 1883, they were based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally called the “Robins,” the “Grooms,” and the “Superbas,” (among other nicknames), the name “Dodgers” officially stuck in 1932. In 1958, the team moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and currently play in Dodger Stadium, baseball’s third oldest ballpark. They compete in the National League, West Division. One of the most famous players to wear the Los Angeles Dodgers jersey is Jackie Robinson, the first black player in Major League Baseball. With his help, the Dodgers won their first World Series in 1955, defeating their New York rivals, the Yankees. They have won a total of six World Series titles, the most recent being in 1988 against the Oakland Athletics. The Dodgers’ fiercest rivalry is with the San Francisco Giants. Both teams originally played in New York, so this is one of baseball’s oldest rivalries. Los Angeles Dodgers jerseys at home are white with “Dodgers” across the chest in blue script. Each player’s number is in red. The uniform originally had red pinstripes, but now is plain white. The away uniform is gray and also has blue script and a red number. The Dodgers cap is “Dodger blue” and has the letters “LA” overlapped on one another in white stitching in the center front of the hat. With a few brief exceptions (like a 1937 green trim uniform, a 1944 blue satin uniform, a 1999 retro royal blue jersey, and the 2006-2007 nameless jersey), Los Angeles Dodgers jerseys have hardly changed since the 1930s. The Dodgers have had a long history of great players. Nearly fifty Dodgers players have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, including greats like Leo Durocher, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Dazzy Vance, Sandy Koufax, and Don Sutton. Because of his tremendous contributions to both the Dodgers and Major League Baseball, the Jackie Robinson jersey number 42 has been retired from all of baseball and it will never be assigned to a new player again. The Los Angeles Dodgers have been on the leading edge for hiring Asian players in Major League Baseball. The Dodgers were the second MLB team to recently hire a Japanese player (Hideo Nomo), and the first team to hire Korean and Taiwanese player. In 2005, Hee Seop Choi was the first Asian player to hit in the Home Run Derby. Games are announced by the sixty-year veteran announcer and Ford C. Frick Award recipient Vin Scully. He currently calls only the first three innings of each game, with Rick Monday and Charley Steiner taking over in the fourth.