Brooklyn Dodgers

Under this name the club won seven pennants and one World Series, in 1955, against the Yankees who had beaten it in five previous meetings. Two years later it left for Los Angeles. The archive holds the earlier Brooklyn identities — the Superbas and the Robins — as separate clubs, so the 28 seasons and the 2,339-1,958 record here are what was played under the Dodgers name.

The best season is 1953, at 105-49, and it ended in a World Series loss to the Yankees. The worst is 1912, at 58-95, the last year at Washington Park before Ebbets Field opened. The club played at Ebbets Field from 1913 until it left.

Twenty-six Hall of Famers played here, among them Jackie Robinson, who broke the major leagues' color line with the club in 1947, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider and Gil Hodges. Leo Durocher managed for ten seasons and won 738 games. Walter Alston, who managed the 1955 title, went on to run the club in Los Angeles for another nineteen years.