The Los Angeles Dodgers: Look out – trolley!
When it comes to baseball, the LA dodgers are a pretty successful bunch – with eight World Series championships to date. Like many baseball teams in America, they started off life in a completely different part of the country – Brooklyn, New York.
Despite having various nicknames after forming in the 1880’s one eventually began to stick – the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers. Why? Well it’s nothing to do with a chaotic trip inside a supermarket. At the time, there were construction projects being carried out in Brooklyn, with many electric trolley tracks being built.
Where there were lots of electric trolleys tracks, there were a lot of electric trolleys shuttling folks around the city. The people of Brooklyn had to be very careful to keep out the way, or dodge, the traffic. The team’s fans became known as the trolley dodgers, with the team then taking on the name, before it was shortened to just ‘dodgers.’
Many years later, the clubs owner relocated the team to Los Angeles, but whilst their location changed, the nickname remained, and the sporting success of the LA Dodgers began.