After Smith's teammate Jack Clark hit a late-inning home run of his own in Game 6 to defeat the Dodgers, the Cardinals moved on to face the Kansas City Royals in the 1985 World Series.

O ' Malley had been told that the Dodgers would not be allowed to move to Los Angeles unless a second team moved to California as well.

Members of the O ' Malley family include Kevin and Brian O ' Malley, who are the sons of former Dodgers owner Peter O ' Malley and grandsons of Walter O ' Malley, the owner who moved the Dodgers west from Brooklyn after the 1957 season.

At the same time, Horace Stoneham moved his New York Giants to the San Francisco Bay Area, ensuring that there would be two west coast NL teams and preserving the longstanding rivalry with O ' Malley's Dodgers that continues to this day.

When the Los Angeles Dodgers displaced the Hollywood Stars PCL team, they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, taking away the Pioneer League's largest market.

In, Campanella moved into the Brooklyn Dodgers ' minor league system, as the Dodger organization began preparations to break the Major Leagues ' color barrier with Jackie Robinson.

In 1978, he moved to California and took a job as assistant to the Dodgers ' director of community relations, Campanella's former teammate and longtime friend Don Newcombe.

In, he was moved up to the class-A Pueblo Dodgers of the Western League and was moved to second base, where he played the rest of his career.

The Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball both moved to the city of Phoenix, Arizona in 2009 for spring training and share a facility, known as Camelback Ranch-Glendale, which is in Phoenix but owned and operated by the City of Glendale.

When the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958, the second version of the Hollywood Stars was forced to relocate and, in an ironic twist, were sold and moved " back " to Salt Lake City, becoming the Salt Lake City Bees.

In Serling's original first-draft script ( and in his short-story adaptation that appeared in the 1960 anthology, " Stories From ' The Twilight Zone '"), the team was supposed to have been the Brooklyn Dodgers stadium in the original story: " Tebbet's Field ", who, like the fictitious " Hoboken Zephyrs ", moved West in 1958 to become the Los Angeles Dodgers.

As the Dodgers moved west in 1958, Reese joined them as a backup infielder, retiring that year after batting. 224 in 59 games.

Though he was able to retain his original jersey number ( 5 ), he moved to first base, while the Dodgers signed Rafael Furcal from the Atlanta Braves to step in for the recovering César Izturis at short.

The New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers had moved to California ( San Francisco and Los Angeles respectively ); New York City mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. appointed a four-man committee to bring the National League back to the city.

Finally, on July 12, 1930, a Brooklyn-based syndicate headed by Bill Dwyer bought the Triangles ; the franchise moved to Brooklyn and was renamed the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The Dodgers would merge with the Boston Yanks franchise in 1945 ( with the Brooklyn half " moving " to the AAFC the next year as the New York Yankees ); in 1949, the Yanks moved to New York and became the New York Bulldogs.

( The major league Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958, although the New York Mets have been located in the adjacent borough of Queens since 1964.

The Stars then affiliated with the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose Triple-A affiliate, the Albuquerque Dukes, moved to Portland, Oregon to become the fourth incarnation of the Beavers.

In his last season with the Dodgers in 1961, he became the team's career RBI leader with 1254, passing Zack Wheat ; Snider moved ahead of him the following year.

When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1957, it caused them to shuffle their minor league teams.

After the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, Alston led the team to pennants in 1959, 1963, 1965, 1966 and 1974, and three more world championships ( 1959, 1963, 1965 ).

With a large number of people relocating to the state from the Midwest and the Northeast, as well as from California, many teams ( most notably the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers ) have normally had large followings in Arizona.

They then entered into a three-way deal with the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers: Randy Johnson was sent to the New York Yankees, for Javier Vázquez, Brad Halsey, and Dioner Navarro who was then dealt to the Dodgers for Shawn Green.

The most popular player in franchise history, " Gonzo " signed a one-year contract worth just under $ 7 million on December 7 to play for the rival Los Angeles Dodgers for the 2007 season.

The move was seen by some fans as a belated attempt by the D ' Backs to counter the trade by their division rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for Boston Red Sox power-hitting OF Manny Ramirez on July 31 and also to compensate for the injuries to Hudson and Byrnes, generally considered two of the more " power-hitting " Diamondbacks on a team which has relied heavily on pitching and defense in recent years.

Despite the acquisitions, the team failed to improve and finished with a record of 82 – 80, in second place behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The line entered the pop-consciousness with Game Two of the 1977 World Series, when a fire broke out near Yankee Stadium as the team was playing the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Los Angeles Dodgers of the 1960s, led by pitcher Sandy Koufax and speedy shortstop Maury Wills, were a successful example of this style.

Members of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers have won the most awards of any franchise ( with 16 ), twice the total of the New York Yankees ( eight ), who have produced the most in the American League.

Previously, because of a players ' strike in 1981, a split-season format forced a divisional playoff series, in which the Montreal Expos won the Eastern Division series over the Philadelphia Phillies three games to two while the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros three games to two in the Western Division.

The Orioles won their first-ever American League championship in 1966, and in a major upset, swept the World Series by out-dueling the Los Angeles Dodgers aces Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.

His Orioles would easily sweep the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1966 World Series.

Of the eight original American League teams, the Orioles were the last of the eight to win the World Series, doing so in 1966 with its four – game sweep of the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers.

United States bankruptcy judge Kevin Gross rendered a stern warning to Selig in regards to the 2011 Los Angeles Dodgers ownership dispute.

Treating other teams differently in regards to their media contracts drew accusations that Selig did not act in good faith with respect to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Gross stated, " Should the Commissioner falter in proving alleged wrongdoing, the Court may allow LAD ( Los Angeles Dodgers ) to take further, limited discovery.

Parking nightmares had plagued the city as far back as the 1950s, the little park lacked modern amenities, and New York City, which in 1957 had lost both its National League teams ( the Dodgers and the Giants ) to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, was actively courting Reds owner Powel Crosley.

The record stood until the Los Angeles Dodgers drew a crowd in excess of 92, 500 to watch Game 5 of the 1959 World Series at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum against the Chicago White Sox.

The Rockies trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres for most of 2007 Major League Baseball season – however – by August, Colorado showed a steady series of wins, while the Division-leading Dodgers began to struggle.

" Kaye was often invited to conduct symphonies as charity fundraisers and was the conductor of the all-city marching band at the season opener of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1984.

Prior to that, the lifelong fan of the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers recorded a song called " The D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song ( Oh really?

Finally, in May 1998, they dealt Bobby Bonilla, Gary Sheffield, Charles Johnson, Jim Eisenreich, and Manuel Barrios to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Mike Piazza and Todd Zeile, both of whom would be gone via trades by midseason.

The Marlins became the first opposing team to win a Series championship on the field at Yankee Stadium since the 1981 World Series, when the Los Angeles Dodgers did it.