baseball and brooklyn and new york03 Apr 2006 10:07 am


I’m no Brooklyn historian and neither am I a baseball historian. While I may know some random obscure facts about both Brooklyn and baseball, it was only yesterday that I found out that the Dodgers was known earlier as the Trolley Dodgers. I know of the other nicknames like the Bridesgrooms, but Trolley Dodgers seem to make perfect sense with at the time when trolleys criss-crossed Brooklyn streets . Now that they’re in LA, the name Dodgers is undoubtedly inappropriate. Perhaps the LA Pornos? LA Blondes?

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