Los Angeles Dodgers

One of the teams that calls Los Angeles home, the Los Angeles Dodgers have been there since 1958. However, the LA Dodgers originally hail from Brooklyn, New York.

The LA Dodgers logo has remained relatively unchanged throughout the years. As the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Los Angeles Dodgers logos featured a blue script “Dodgers” and the “B” initial. Since moving to Los Angeles, the Dodgers logo is still in blue script, though on more of a slant, and the letters “LA” are used for the initial on the caps.

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Before choosing you Los Angeles Dodgers wallpaper, you might want to consider some of the Los Angeles Dodgers history. To understand the 1955 Los Angeles Dodgers and that first World Series team, you need to look a few decades back in Los Angeles Dodgers baseball history.

Throughout the 1920s and 30s the team was rebuilt into a contender. Led by famous names like Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, and Don Newcombe, the team won several pennants in the 1940s and early 1950s, but each time were defeated by the New York Yankees. The fans became so used to the constant disappointment from the team that the unofficial slogan of the Dodgers became “wait ‘til next year!”

1951 saw the Dodgers in collapse. At the beginning of August, the team was leading in the National League by a large margin. Despite winning over half of their games from the rest of the season, the Giants ended up on a huge winning streak that tied them for first place with the Dodgers. At the final game, it looked like the Dodgers were going to win, when Bobby Thomson hit his infamous “Shot Heard ‘Round The World”, causing a three-run walk-off home run that allowed the Giants to win the game.

This led up to 1955, when the “next year” finally came for the Dodgers. They ended up beating the Bronx Bombers, with the help of Johnny Podres who won two of the games. The team continued on to win their first World Series game. This event was even remembered in Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”