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Originally Posted by doug.goodman
Retrosheet (where Baseball Reference and many others get much of their data) has the Brooklyn & Los Angeles teams listed using the following names :
1884-1887 : Trolley Dodgers
1888-1898 : Bridegrooms
1899-1913 : Superbas
1914-1931 : Robins
1932-2024 : Dodgers
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/L/FR_LAN.htm |
I believe that the team was not called the Trolley Dodgers until the 1890s, when they were also sometimes called the Bridegrooms or Grooms. When Ned Hanlon became the manager in 1899, the newspapers called them "Hanlon's Superbas", but it was never an official name for the team. "Superbas" as a nickname outlasted Ned as their manager by many years. Some papers continued to call them by that name even after Wilbert Robinson became the manager.