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		Following the 1957 season, Dodger owner Walter O'Malley shocked his Brooklyn fans with the announcement that the team would be moving to Los Angeles for the 1958 season.
		The Dodgers accumulated 1,366 days on the disabled list last season, The Opening Day lineup of Los Angeles logged 366 disabled list days, that is the most of all teams in the majors.
		The Oakland A's were heavily favored in the 1988 World Series, but the Dodgers shocked the AL champs in five games to win their fourth World Title in Los Angeles and fifth as a franchise.
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	Los Angeles Dodgers on Baseball Almanac
		The Dodgers led the geographic expansion of baseball to the west, starting the 1958 season at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
		It was the year of "Fernandomania," in Los Angeles, when the fans' adulation was directed at a twenty year old Mexican rookie named Fernando Valenzuela, who won his first eight decisions, wound up winning thirteen games (in the strike shortened season) and copped both Rookie of the Year and Cy Young Awards.
		The Dodgers won the 1949 pennant, led by Robinson's.342 average, thirty-seven steals (League high) and one-hundred twenty-four runs batted in; Hodges had one-hundred fifteen runs batted in and Furillo one-hundred six.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /teams/dodgers.shtml (1472 words)

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		The beloved Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in time for the home opener on April 18, 1958.
		Forgetting the struggles of 2003 the Dodgers played very solid ball basically all year long as they finish the regular season 93-69, good enough to win the NL West Division.
		Buy Dodgers Tickets Early offensive problems along with a string of injuries made it tough for the Dodgers in 2002 but they were able to overcome these setbacks and maintain contention for the NL West and the Wild Card spot into the playoffs.
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		The team moved to Los Angeles in 1958, and picked up two World Series championships (1963 and 1965), three National League pennants (1963, 1965 and 1966).
		For more information about the Los Angeles Dodgers, visit their official site or MLB.com.
		The Los Angeles Dodgers ball club originated in Brooklyn in 1890.
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	Anaheim Angels
		The American League’s answer to Walter O’Malley’s shift of the Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1958, the Los Angeles Angels were born out of the fear that a rival third league (Branch Rickey’s short-lived Continental League) would reach the West Coast before the Junior Circuit could.
		The Angels played from 1961-1965 as tenants of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
		In 1995 the Angels led the AL West much of the season but were overtaken late, when the Mariners and Halos finished in a tie, the two played one game for the division title.
	www.thebaseballpage.com /present/fp/al/ana.htm (2855 words)

	Los Angeles Dodgers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On April 18, 1958, the Dodgers played their first game in Los Angeles, defeating the Giants, 6-5, before 78,672 fans at the Coliseum.
		1957, after which the team moved to Los Angeles for the 1958 season.
		When the Los Angeles city fathers attended the 1955 World Series looking to entice a team to move to the City of Angels, they weren't even thinking of the Dodgers - their original target was the
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		Baseball has been as much a part of Los Angeles as sunshine and summer days since the Dodgers left Brooklyn for their West Coast home back in 1958.
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	Stadiums of the NFL-Los Angeles Coliseum-Los Angeles Rams/Raiders
		In April 1958, the Los Angeles Dodgers (MLB) moved into the coliseum while Dodger Stadium was being constructed.
		The Raiders decided to move back to the Oakland Coliseum after the 1994 season, playing their last game at the Los Angeles Coliseum on December 24, 1994.
		By 1930, the City of Los Angeles was awarded the 1932 Olympics.
	www.stadiumsofnfl.com /past/LAColiseum.htm (458 words)

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		National League relocated to Los Angeles in 1958.
		The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a tremendously historical sports venue and probably should be preserved on that basis alone.
		Los Angeles, California, near the campus of the
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		The 92,516 seat LA Coliseum served as the home of the Los Angeles Raiders of the NFL from 1982 from end to end the 1994 season, and at present serves as the home for the University of Southern California football (since 1923), and international soccer competition for the LA Coliseum Tickets for less.
		The LA Coliseum was constructed in the early 1920's and opened its doors to the Los Angeles community in June 1923.
		The LA Coliseum and Sports Arena are under the power of the Los Angeles Coliseum charge, which was shaped under the Joint work out of Powers Act on September 25, 1945 for the best LA Coliseum Tickets sale of the year.
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		The LA Coliseum complex provided a home for the Rams (from Cleveland, 1946-79), the Dodgers (from Brooklyn, 1958-61) and the Lakers (from Minneapolis, 1960-68), and was the growth home of the San Diego Chargers (1960, AFL) and Kings (1967, NHL).
		The 92,516 seat LA Coliseum served as the home of the Los Angeles Raiders of the NFL from 1982 from end to end the 1994 season, and at present serves as the home for the University of Southern California football (since 1923), and international soccer competition for the LA Coliseum Tickets for less.
		The LA Coliseum was constructed in the early 1920's and opened its doors to the Los Angeles community in June 1923.
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		In only four seasons the Dodgers set several attendance records at the Coliseum, including 92,706 for Game Five of the 1959 WS against the White Sox and 93,103 for a May 7, 1959 exhibition against the Yankees on Roy Campanella Night.
		A 42' screen was erected in the left-field corner in an attempt to reduce the number of pop fly home runs, while the right-field fence shot sharply out to an almost unreachable 440' in 1958.
		Its oval-shaped playing area created 250' and 302' foul lines in its first season, and 120' of unused space between the centerfield fence and the seats.
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	Los Angeles Dodgers
		Following the 1957 season, Dodger owner Walter O'Malley shocked his Brooklyn fans with the announcement that the team would be moving to Los Angeles for the 1958 season.
		Every season it seemed the Dodgers were involved in a pennant race, either with the Cardinals, Braves, Phillies, or Giants.
		Brooklyn natives were forced to "dodge" the trolley's in the busy streets.
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	Los Angeles Dodgers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Formerly known as: Brooklyn Dodgers, 1932 to 1957, after which the team moved to Los Angeles for the 1958 season.
		The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles, California.
		Stengel led the Dodgers to the Polo Grounds for the showdown and beat the Giants twice to knock them out of the pennant as the soon-to-be-nicknamed "Gas House Gang" nailed the pennant cold by beating the Cincinnati Reds the same two days.
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	Walter O'Malley : Official Website
		O’Malley is widely regarded as a pioneer in baseball for the westward expansion of the game, moving the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles prior to the 1958 season and for designing, building and privately financing Dodger Stadium which opened on April 10, 1962.
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		Most Influential People "off the field" in sports history as voted by the Sports Century panel.
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		In 1958, Channel 11 became the flagship television station of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, lasting until the 1992 season, when they moved to arch-rival KTLA Channel 5 the following year.
		Austrailian newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch purchased the Metromedia television stations in 1986, and those stations formed the basis for his new Fox television network, in which KTTV would become the network's West Coast flagship station.
		KTTV began its status as an independent television station, and the Times sold the station to Metromedia in 1963.
	www.knowledgeisfun.com /K/KT/KTTV.php (284 words)

	SLAM! Sports - Baseball - Bradley hits two home runs
		Milton Bradley hit two home runs, including one of three straight by the Dodgers in the first inning, and Los Angeles beat the Pirates 8-3 Thursday behind another solid outing from Jeff Weaver to finish its first season sweep of any NL team since moving to the West Coast in 1958.
		The left-hander allowed only two home runs over 53 innings in his nine other starts this season and had won five of his previous six outings.
		Weaver (9-10) allowed two runs on five hits in seven innings and struck out five, pitching the NL West leaders to their 24th win in 30 games and putting them a season-high 21 games over.500.
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	Wrigley Field (Los Angeles) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		L.A. Wrigley's minor league baseball days ended when the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National League transferred to Los Angeles in 1958.
		Wrigley Field was a ballpark in Los Angeles which served host to minor league baseball teams in the region for over 30 years, and was the home park for the Los Angeles Angels in their expansion season of 1961.
		The use of Wrigley was studied by the Dodgers, but they opted for seating capacity over suitability as a baseball field, and instead set up shop in the Los Angeles Coliseum while awaiting construction of Dodger Stadium.
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	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Roxie Campanella, baseball heroine
		Roy Campanella was paralyzed in an automobile accident in January 1958, after the Dodgers completed their final season in Brooklyn.
		Roxie Campanella, the widow of Brooklyn Dodger Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella and a tireless advocate for victims of spinal cord injury, died of cancer Sunday at her Los Angeles home.
		Although Roy Campanella never played a game for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Mrs.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/03/16/roxie_campanella_baseball_heroine (588 words)

	Articles - Alan Wiggins
		Born in Los Angeles, California, Wiggins was a highly praised prospect, before being selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers as the 8th pick of the draft.
		Alan Anthony Wiggins ( February 17, 1958- January 6, 1991) was an American Major League Baseball player who served as a second baseman, outfielder, and sometimes designated hitter, for two different teams in his career; the San Diego Padres from 1981 to 1985 and the Baltimore Orioles from 1985 to 1987.
		After a bad 1987 season where he batted.232 with only 20 stolen bases, and was putout on the base paths twice in a single season by means of the hidden ball trick, he was released by the Orioles on September 29.
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		By 1957, however, Ebbets Field had grown too old to satisfy Dodger owner Walter O'Malley, and in 1958 Brooklyn's beloved Dodgers were in Los Angeles.
		Cramped but colorful Ebbets Field, in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, was home to the Dodgers in their lean times and glory years, until the franchise was transplanted to Los Angeles.
		Built by Dodger owner Charlie Ebbets for the 1913 season, the widely anticipated park opened without a press box, and no one brought the key to the bleachers for the first game.
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	Charlie Neal BaseballLibrary.com
		The Dodgers moved in 1958 to Los Angeles, where they played at the oddly shaped Coliseum, and that stadium's 251' left-field line accounted for Neal's jump from 12 HR in 1957 to 22 (in 473 at-bats) in 1958.
		His offense and playing time declined after that, and he was obtained by the expansion Mets for the 1962 season, serving as their best infielder (no matter where he played) until he was traded to the Reds in mid-1963, his last season.
		His best season came in 1959, when he made the All-Star team for the first time, hit 19 HR, and reached career highs in triples (11, tied with teammate Wally Moon for the NL lead), doubles (30), runs (103), RBI (83), steals (17), batting average (.287), and slugging average (.464).
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	ipedia.com: Sandy Koufax Article
		After the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958, Koufax continued in the same role, pitching long relief with an occasional start.
		The next season, when the Dodgers moved into Dodger Stadium, a ballpark which strongly favored a power pitcher, Koufax exploded all at once.
		He had been making slow but steady progress as a pitcher until 1961, when a teammate, catcher Norm Sherry, advised him he was overthrowing and could be a more effective pitcher if he would just "ease off a bit." Koufax took the advice to heart and had a fine season, winning 18 games that year.
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		The LA Coliseum was constructed in the early 1920's and opened its doors to the Los Angeles community in June 1923.
		The LA Coliseum complex provided a home for the Rams (from Cleveland, 1946-79), the Dodgers (from Brooklyn, 1958-61) and the Lakers (from Minneapolis, 1960-68), and was the growth home of the San Diego Chargers (1960, AFL) and Kings (1967, NHL).
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	Q & A With Vin Scully - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Scully, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, joined the legendary Red Barber as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers' radio broadcast team in 1950 and followed the team west in 1958.
		Vin Scully, 75, is in his 54th season as a broadcaster for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
		The Dodgers have won six World Series titles and seven National League pennants during Scully's time with the team.
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	Los Angeles Dodgers
		Following the 1957 season, Dodger owner Walter O'Malley shocked his Brooklyn fans with the announcement that the team would be moving to Los Angeles for the 1958 season.
		"Brooklyns," "Superbas," "Dodgers," "Atlantics" and "Robins" were alll associated with the franchise from just after World War I until the mid-1930s.
		Thirty-years old and already an established power-hitter, Camilli gave Brooklyn six excellent seasons, winning the MVP in 1941 and finishing among league leaders in several offensive categories.
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	Los Angeles Dodgers
		Following the 1957 season, Dodger owner Walter O'Malley shocked his Brooklyn fans with the announcement that the team would be moving to Los Angeles for the 1958 season.
		The Dodgers nickname originated in 1890s Brooklyn, where trolley-cars were the mode of public transportation.
		Grimes slipped through the Pirates fingers, winning 159 games for Brooklyn in nine seasons.
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	Los Angeles Dodgers
		Following the 1957 season, Dodger owner Walter O'Malley shocked his Brooklyn fans with the announcement that the team would be moving to Los Angeles for the 1958 season.
		Thirty-years old and already an established power-hitter, Camilli gave Brooklyn six excellent seasons, winning the MVP in 1941 and finishing among league leaders in several offensive categories.
		Grimes slipped through the Pirates fingers, winning 159 games for Brooklyn in nine seasons.
	www.thebaseballpage.com /present/fp/nl/la.htm (1332 words)

	Dodgers sale OKd; Beane rumor nixed
		He played 11 seasons in Los Angeles and hit 270 homers, more than any other Dodger since the team moved to L.A. in 1958.
		As it turns out, the Dodgers, with the worst offense in the majors last season, also are interested in signing Karros.
		On another A's-Dodgers front, it was learned that Oakland is pursuing free agent Eric Karros to supply right-handed power as a first baseman/designated hitter and off the bench.
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