Editing Los Angeles Dodgers (section)

===Origin of the nickname===
The Dodgers' official history reports that the term "Trolley Dodgers" was attached to the Brooklyn ballclub due to the [[List of streetcar lines in Brooklyn|complex maze of trolley cars]] that weaved its way through the borough of Brooklyn.<ref name="DodgersTimeline1890s">{{cite web|title=Franchise Timeline – 1890s|url=https://www.mlb.com/dodgers/history/timeline-1890s|publisher=MLB Advanced Media|website=Dodgers.com|access-date=June 14, 2018|archive-date=October 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009192546/https://www.mlb.com/dodgers/history/timeline-1890s|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1892, the city of Brooklyn (Brooklyn was an independent city until annexed by New York City in 1898) began replacing its slow-moving, horse-drawn trolley lines with the faster, more powerful electric trolley lines.<ref name="Brown">{{cite web|last=Brown|first=Peter Jensen|title=The Grim Reality of the 'Trolley Dodgers'|url=http://esnpc.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-grim-reality-of-trolley-dodgers.html|work=Early Sports and Pop-Culture History Blog|access-date=April 9, 2014|date=April 7, 2014|archive-date=April 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413125409/http://esnpc.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-grim-reality-of-trolley-dodgers.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Within less than three years, by the end of 1895, electric trolley accidents in Brooklyn had resulted in more than 130 deaths and maimed well over 500 people.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=The Christian Work|date=January 2, 1896|volume=60|page=10}}</ref> Brooklyn's high profile, the significant number of widely reported accidents, and a trolley strike in early 1895, combined to create a strong association in the public's mind between Brooklyn and trolley dodging.<ref name="Brown" />

Sportswriters started using the name "Trolley Dodgers" to refer to the Brooklyn team early in the 1895 season.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026355/1895-05-11/ed-1/seq-10/|newspaper=The Scranton Tribune|date=May 11, 1895|title=Notes of the Diamond|access-date=April 9, 2014|archive-date=April 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413140958/http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026355/1895-05-11/ed-1/seq-10/|url-status=live}}</ref> The name was shortened to, on occasion, the "Brooklyn Dodgers" as early as 1898.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1898-04-25/ed-1/seq-10/|access-date=April 9, 2014|newspaper=Evening Star (Washington DC)|date=April 25, 1898|title=Current Sporting Notes|archive-date=April 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413130744/http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1898-04-25/ed-1/seq-10/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Sportswriters in the early 20th century began referring to the Dodgers as the "Bums", in reference to the team's fans and possibly because of the "street character" nature of Jack Dawkins, the "Artful Dodger" in Charles Dickens' ''Oliver Twist''. Newspaper cartoonist [[Willard Mullin]] used a drawing of famous clown [[Emmett Kelly]] to depict "Dem Bums": the team would later use "Weary Willie" in promotional images, and Kelly himself was a club mascot during the 1950s.

Other team names used by the franchise were the Atlantics, Grays, Grooms, Bridegrooms, Superbas, and Robins. All of these nicknames were used by fans and sportswriters to describe the team, but not in any official capacity. The team's legal name was the Brooklyn Base Ball Club.<ref>{{cite web | title = Brooklyn Ball Parks | url = http://www.covehurst.net/ddyte/brooklyn/dodgers.html | publisher = BrooklynBallParks.com | access-date = October 9, 2008 | archive-date = August 20, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080820160628/http://www.covehurst.net/ddyte/brooklyn/dodgers.html | url-status = live }}</ref> However, the Trolley Dodger nickname was used throughout this period, simultaneously with these other nicknames, by fans and sportswriters of the day. The team did not use the name in any formal sense until 1932 when the word "Dodgers" appeared on team jerseys.<ref name="National Baseball Hall of Fame" /> The "conclusive shift" came in 1933, when both home and road jerseys for the team bore the name "Dodgers".<ref name="LeonardBernardo" />

Examples of how the many popularized names of the team were used are available from newspaper articles before 1932. A New York Times article describing a game in 1916 starts out: "Jimmy Callahan, pilot of the Pirates, did his best to wreck the hopes the Dodgers have of gaining the National League pennant", but then goes on to comment: "the only thing that saved the Superbas from being toppled from first place was that the Phillies lost one of the two games played".<ref>{{cite news | title = Buccaneers Rout Sleepy Superbas | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/09/14/301895812.pdf | work = [[The New York Times]] | access-date = October 8, 2008 | date = September 14, 1916 | archive-date = March 8, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210308165519/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/09/14/301895812.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref> What is interesting about the use of these two nicknames is that most baseball statistics sites and baseball historians generally now refer to the pennant-winning 1916 Brooklyn team as the Robins. A 1918 New York Times article uses the nickname in its title: "Buccaneers Take Last From Robins", but the subtitle of the article reads: "Subdue The Superbas By 11 To 4, Making Series An Even Break".<ref>{{cite news | title = Buccaneers Take Last From Robins | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/05/19/98265450.pdf | work = [[The New York Times]] | access-date = October 8, 2008 | date = May 19, 1918 | archive-date = March 8, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210308045745/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/05/19/98265450.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>

Another example of the use of the many nicknames is found on the program issued at Ebbets Field for the [[1920 World Series]], which identifies the matchup in the series as "Dodgers vs. Indians" despite the fact that the Robins nickname had been in consistent use for around six years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1920_World_Series_program.jpg |title=File:1920 World Series program.jpg – Wikimedia Commons |publisher=Commons.wikimedia.org |access-date=March 29, 2012 |archive-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107211030/http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1920_World_Series_program.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref> The "Robins" nickname was derived from the name of their Hall of Fame manager, Wilbert Robinson, who led the team from 1914 to 1931.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baseball-statistics.com/HOF/Robinson-Wilbert.htm |title=Wilbert Robinson |publisher=Baseball-statistics.com |date=August 8, 1934 |access-date=March 29, 2012 |archive-date=April 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426041711/http://www.baseball-statistics.com/HOF/Robinson-Wilbert.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>