• 1940 Brooklyn Dodgers finished the season in second place. It was their best finish in 16 years. December 8, 1939: Al Todd was traded by the Dodgers to...
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  • The 1940 Brooklyn Dodgers season was their 11th in the league. The team improved on their previous season's output of 4–6–1, winning eight games. They...
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  • The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers....
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  • The 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers, led by manager Leo Durocher, won their first pennant in 21 years, edging the St. Louis Cardinals by 2.5 games. They went on...
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    The following year, the Dodgers finished at .500 for the only time in 138 seasons. The most wins the Dodgers ever had in a season was 111, which they did...
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    The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member...
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  • Baseball-Reference season page Baseball Almanac season page 1939 Brooklyn Dodgers uniform Brooklyn Dodgers reference site Acme Dodgers page Archived September...
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  • Giants Eagles Dodgers Steelers Redskins Bears Cardinals Packers Rams Lions The 1940 NFL season was the 21st regular season of the National Football League...
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  • The 1939 Brooklyn Dodgers season was their tenth in the league. The team failed to improve on their previous season's output of 4–4–3, losing six games...
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  • The 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers season was their 12th in the league. The team failed to improve on their previous season's output of 8–3, winning only seven...
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  • Drillers Rancho Cucamonga Quakes Great Lakes Loons ACL Dodgers Los Angeles Dodgers The Los Angeles Dodgers farm system consists of seven Minor League Baseball...
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    Grounds in the borough of Manhattan and the Dodgers played in the borough of Brooklyn. After the 1957 season, Dodgers owner big Walter O'Malley decided to move...
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    Pee Wee Reese (category Brooklyn Dodgers players)
    the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1940 to 1958. A ten-time All-Star, Reese contributed to seven National League championships for the Dodgers and...
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    Cardinals–Dodgers rivalry is a Major League Baseball (MLB) National League rivalry played between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The...
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    Chuck Connors (category Brooklyn Dodgers players)
    In 1940, following his departure from college, Connors played four baseball games with the Brooklyn Dodgers' minor league team, the Newport Dodgers (Northeast...
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  • National League Los Angeles Dodgers. The history of Dodgers' games being broadcast began when the then-Brooklyn Dodgers became one of the first Major...
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  • 1940: The Red Sox sell pitcher Elden Aukur to the St. Louis Browns. February 13, 1940: The Red Sox sell outfielder Joe Vosmik to the Brooklyn Dodgers...
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  • Newark Eagles (redirect from Newark Dodgers)
    were to (black) Newark what the Dodgers were to Brooklyn. — Eagles star Max Manning After the close of the 1948 season, in the aftermath of Jackie Robinson's...
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  • 1952 season and were renamed as the Thomasville Tomcats. They became a Brooklyn Dodgers affiliate and changed the team name to the Thomasville Dodgers in...
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  • 1941 World Series (category Brooklyn Dodgers postseason)
    The 1941 World Series matched the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers, with the Yankees winning in five games to capture their fifth title in...
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  • Walter O'Malley (category Brooklyn Dodgers executives)
    executive who owned the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league...
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  • years as a sports columnist, covering the Brooklyn Dodgers. During spring training prior to the 1934 season, McGowen asked Bill Terry, manager of the...
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  • Philadelphia Phillies integrated. The Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles and became the Los Angeles Dodgers. The New York Giants moved to San Francisco...
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  • Bailey, age 73. Played both offensive and defensive end for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1940 to 1941. April 17- Jim Eiden, age 88. Eiden's NFL career consisted...
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    Ebbets Field (category Brooklyn Dodgers stadiums)
    stadium in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. It is mainly known for having been the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team of the National League...
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  • pennant by 12 games over the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the best record in MLB. They went on to face the Detroit Tigers in the 1940 World Series, beating them...
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  • of the Brooklyn Dodgers and changed their name to the Union City Dodgers. After placing last (51–69; .425) in their first season with Brooklyn, the 1954...
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    Leo Durocher (category Brooklyn Dodgers managers)
    1937 season, captaining the team and winning the 1934 World Series (their third title in nine years) before being traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Primarily...
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    winners were all in or from Brooklyn. Brooklyn's most famous historical team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, named for "trolley dodgers" played at Ebbets Field. In...
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    Pete Reiser (category Brooklyn Dodgers players)
    training in both 1939 and 1940 forced the Dodgers to keep him. (Rickey would become GM of the Dodgers after the 1942 season and witness Reiser's injury-caused...
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