subject: Los Angeles Dodgers Pk San Diego Padres [print this page] Los Angeles Dodgers abbreviations: LAD Los Angeles Dodgers abbreviations: LAD
Home: Los Angeles dodgers stadium, 1962 enabled
Join the alliance year: 1884
Conference: national league western conference
Los Angeles Dodgers is a professional baseball league team belonging to national league west. The dodgers were established in 1883 Brooklyn and his formerly known as Brooklyn dodgers. It renamed after it moved to Los Angeles in 1958. It is the first team ever accepted black players of the major league club.
The past famous player: Brooklyn Jackie Robinson period: Jackie Robinson, Roy - Candace palmer naira, Duke Snider; Los Angeles period: Dayton, Sandy Koufax, Don Ruysdael, Don Sutton, Orel Hershiser; active players: Derek Lowe, Jeff Kent, Norma - Garcia pole, Takashi Saito. They were all famous plays in that time.
Recent record (before 2008)
Championship count: 6; Championship year: 1955 (Brooklyn period), 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981, and 1988 (Los Angeles period); 2006 record: 88 victories and 74 negative. It got the second place in the NL WEST and the first place in wildcard first.
San Diego Padres
Abbreviations: SD
Short: Friars, Fathers
At home: San Diego Mr. Precut stadium opened in 2004
Join the alliance year: in 1969
Conference: national league western conference
San Diego priest teams performance is not beautiful in the first 10 years since 1969 they joined the major leagues, until 1984 the priest won the NL west champion and reached the world series at the same time(finally lost to the tigers), they began to get the attention of people.
But since then the priest team performance is not stable. Until the beginning of 2004, under the leading of the wily conciliator coach Bruce the priest truly ranks among the giants. They won in the half of the teams that they taken part in three consecutive years into. And it became the NO.1 the NL west in 2005 and 2006. But in 2008, Bruce joined the giant instead. Whether new coach can lead the padres reengineering brilliant or not, it is unknown.
The past famous player: Dave - Winfield, Randy Jones, Tony Gwynn.
Active famous player: Trevor Hoffman, Chris Young, David Wells, Brian Giles.
Recent record
It has not got a champion until 2008. In addition it gained a record 88 victories and 74 negatives in 2006 and was in the first place of the NL WEST. Although they havent got any champions until now, they played as hard as they can to achieve their goals.
