The Los Angeles Dodgers are the second most successful franchise in the National League and the third most successful and second wealthy in Major League Baseball after the New York Yankees.^[1] The franchise was formerly based in Brooklyn and known originally as the “Grays” or “Trolley Dodgers” after the trams which supporters had to avoid to enter games.^[2] Later it became known successives as the “Bridegrooms”, “Superbas”, “Dodgers” and “Robins”; the present “Dodgers” was firmly established in 1932.

The franchise has won the World Series six times and lost a further twelve, and like the Yankees and Cardinals have never lost 100 games in a season since World War I, with their worst record since then being in 1992 with sixty three wins and their best records ever being in 1953 with 105 wins and 1942 with 104. Their most successful period, between 1947 and 1966 with ten World Series appearances and only two seasons with 71 or more losses (one of them the year they moved to Los Angeles after a dispute over stadium funding^[2]), was famous for the Dodgers becoming the first Major League Baseball team to incorporate African American players, led by Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella.^[2]

Season-by-Season Records[edit]

Opening Day Starting lineups[edit]

This is a chart of the Opening Day Starting Lineup for the Los Angeles Dodgers for every season since they moved to Los Angeles in 1958.

References[edit]

• Baseball-Reference.com Dodgers team index