Los Angeles Cheap Jerseys
- The Los Angeles Dodgers started their life as the Brooklyn Dodgers. The jerseys in those days featured the letter "B" in an old English script. They left Brooklyn and headed to Los Angeles in time for the 1958 season when their jerseys continued to display an ascending baseball logo, which has been traced to Dodgers office letterhead from the 1930s.
- Cooperstown has many Los Angeles Dodgers jerseys on display along with other baseball memorabilia. The exhibits include
* Sandy Koufax's 1965 National League Cy Young Award.
* A bat used by Shawn Green on May 23, 2002, to hit four homers against the Milwaukee Brewers
* Balls from each of Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax' four no-hitters. - The Dodgers have played in numerous parks over the years. These include Capitoline Skating Lake and Base-Ball Ground, Washington Park, Ridgewood Park, Eastern Park, "New" Washington Park, Ebbets Field, Roosevelt Stadium, Memorial Coliseum, and finally since April 10, 1962, Dodger Stadium with a capacity of 56,000.
- Being a storied and history rich franchise, they have retired a fair number of players numbers over the years. #1 - Pee Wee Reese #2 - Tommy Lasorda, #4 - Duke Snider, #19 - Jim Gilliam, #20 - Don Sutton, #24 - Walter Alston, #32 - Sandy Koufax, #39 - Roy Campanella, #42 - Jackie Robinson, #53 - Don Drysdale.
- Players who have pitched no-hitters for this team include Tom Lovett, Mal Eason, Nap Rucker, Dazzy Vance, Tex Carleton, Ed Head, Rex Barney, Carl Erskine, Sal Maglie, Sandy Koufax, Bill Singer, Jerry Reuss, Fernando Valenzuela, Kevin Gross, Ramon Martinez, and Hideo Nomo.
- Those players who excelled in their rookie year for this team so as to win the ROY honors have included Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe, Joe Black, Jim Gilliam, Frank Howard, Jim Lefebvre, Ted Sizemore, Rick Sutcliffe, Steve Howe, Fernando Valenzuela, Steve Sax, Eric Karros, Mike Piazza, Raul Mondesi,
Hideo Nomo, and Todd Hollandsworth. This is a record for Major League Baseball, no other team has had so many rookie sensations being so honored. - This club was originally known as the Bridegroooms.
- In right field is a 23mm ProStar manufactured by Daktronics (as are all the screens). It is the largest video screen in major league baseball (tied with the Cincinnati Reds). The size is 26' 6" x 46' 6" and is a 16x9 format. It consists of 1584 modules that are made up of 1,216,512 green, blue and red LED's.
- On January 11, 1977, the club traded Bill Buckner, Ivan DeJesus, and a player from the minors to the Chicago Cubs for R. Monday and M. Garman. Buckner's knee was shot, and he could only play first base. Buckner hit around .300 for a number of years after the trade, and Monday had some great moments as a Dodger depite his nagging back injuries. Other events in 1977 included:
* The Oakland Raiders beat the Minnesota Vikings in the Super Bowl 32-14.
* The space shuttle Enterprise had it's first "flight" above the Mojave Desert while on top of a 747.
* In the 49th Academy Awards "Rocky," Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway were victorious.
* "Brady Bunch Hour" was telecast for the final time on ABC.
* Bing Crosby died while playing golf. - In a very bad deal, the team ownership traded P. Martinez who had gone 10-5 as a rookie in 1993 for Delino DeShields. It was a straight-up deal that ensure Pedro Martinez would never be a lifelong part of the club. Martinez went 55-33 in four seasons in Montreal and won his first Cy Young Award in 1997, when he went 17-8 with an ERA of 1.90. After being sent to BeanTown, Pedro won 2 more Cy Youngs and continued to prove he's one of the best pitchers of all time. Later, a move to New York cemented his career as one of the outstanding pitchers of his generation.