Roger Arrieta
Gizmodo posted an interesting article today on the history of the logos for the eight remaining playoff teams. Below is a little bit of history on the Dodgers logo.
The Dodgers’ name and logo have nothing to do with dodging balls (or LA cars). In fact, they’re a reference to a diss that New Yorkers would often aim at Brooklynites in the 1890s. Manhattanites often referred to their eastern neighbors as “trolly dodgers” because Brooklyn was covered in street-level trolly tracks.
But the pejorative nickname wasn’t officially adopted for more than 40 years—mainly because, until the 1940s, newspaper writers and fans used all sorts of nicknames for their favorite teams. It was definitely different than today’s highly-regulated branding schemes, that’s for sure. And when the team moved to LA in 1958, the in-joke stopped being a joke and became a way to shed the “B” of the Dodger’s traditional logo.
You can read the entire article on Gizmodo’s Website The Hidden History of the MLB Playoff Team Logos
