Dodger or Dodgers may refer to:
Sports teams
Baseball
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Brooklyn Dodgers, a Major League Baseball team (1911–1957), relocated to Los Angeles
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Cambridge Dodgers
The Cambridge Dodgers were a "Class D" Minor League Baseball team, based in Cambridge, Maryland that played in the Eastern Shore League from 1946 to 1949 as an affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Before World War II, they were an affiliate of the ...
, a minor league affiliate
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Nashua Dodgers
The Nashua Dodgers was a farm club of the Brooklyn Dodgers, operating in the class-B New England League between 1946 and 1949. It is believed to be the first professional baseball team based in the United States in the twentieth century to play wi ...
, a farm club
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Newport News Dodgers
The Newport News Dodgers were a minor league baseball affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers between 1944 and 1955. They played in the Piedmont League and were based in Newport News, Virginia. The teams played at Peninsula War Memorial Stadium on Pem ...
, a minor league affiliate
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Greenwood Dodgers
The Greenwood Dodgers were a minor league baseball team, affiliated with the Brooklyn Dodgers that was based in Greenwood, Mississippi. They played in the Cotton States League and operated from 1934–1940 and 1947 and 1952. The team won the league ...
, an affiliate
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Lamesa Dodgers, an affiliate
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Newport Dodgers
The Newport Dodgers were a Northeast Arkansas League baseball team based in Newport, Arkansas, USA that played from 1936 to 1941. They were affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals from 1936 to 1937, the Detroit Tigers in 1939 and the Brooklyn Dodge ...
, an affiliate
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Ponca City Dodgers, an affiliate
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Thomasville Dodgers, an affiliate
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Union City Dodgers, an affiliate
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Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Established in 1883 in the city of Brooklyn ...
, a Major League Baseball team (1958–present)
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Arizona League Dodgers, an affiliate
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Artesia Dodgers, a former affiliate
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Dominican Summer Dodgers, an affiliate in the Dominican Summer League
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Green Bay Dodgers
The Green Bay Dodgers were the final moniker of the minor league baseball teams located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States between 1891 and 1960. Green Bay teams played as members of the Wisconsin State League (1891), Wisconsin–Michigan Le ...
, a former affiliate
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Lethbridge Expos, known as the Lethbridge Dodgers while affiliated with the Los Angeles team
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Medford Dodgers
The Medford Dodgers were a minor league baseball team based in Medford, Oregon, that played in the Class A-Short Season Northwest League from 1969-1971. Prior to 1970, the club played as the Rouge Valley Dodgers.
History
Rogue Vally Baseball, Inc. ...
, a former affiliate
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Odessa Dodgers
The Odessa Dodgers were a minor league baseball team affiliated with the Los Angeles Dodgers. They played in the Sophomore League from 1959 to 1960 and represented Odessa, Texas. The Dodgers manager was Roy Hartsfield.
Originally, the city of Odes ...
, a former affiliate
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Oklahoma City Dodgers
The Oklahoma City Dodgers are a Minor League Baseball team of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and the Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers. They are located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and play their home games at Chickasaw Bricktown Ba ...
, current Triple-A affiliate in the Pacific Coast League
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Omaha Dodgers
The Omaha Dodgers were a Minor League Baseball team of the American Association and the Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1961 to 1962. They were located in Omaha, Nebraska. The team was Omaha's second American Association franc ...
, a former affiliate
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Orangeburg Dodgers
The Orangeburg Dodgers were a minor league baseball team based in Orangeburg, South Carolina that played in the Western Carolinas League in 1974. They were an affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers and were managed by Bart Shirley. They finished in ...
, a former affiliate
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Salisbury Dodgers
Salisbury ( ) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath.
Salisbury is in the southeast of Wil ...
a former affiliate
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Vero Beach Devil Rays
The Vero Beach Devil Rays, originally the Vero Beach Dodgers, were a minor league baseball team based in Vero Beach, Florida. They played in the Class A-Advanced Florida State League from 1980–2008, at which point they relocated to Port Charlot ...
, formerly Dodgers, a former affiliate
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Waterbury Dodgers
Waterbury is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut on the Naugatuck River, southwest of Hartford and northeast of New York City. Waterbury is the second-largest city in New Haven County, Connecticut. According to the 2020 US Census, in 202 ...
, a former affiliate
Former minor league affiliates of both Major League teams:
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Danville Dodgers Danville or Dansville may refer to:
;Canada
*Danville, Quebec
;United States
*Danville, Alabama
*Danville, Arkansas
*Danville, California
*Danville, Georgia
*Danville, Illinois
*Danville, Indiana
*Danville, Iowa
* Danville, Kansas
*Danville, Kentu ...
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Kokomo Dodgers
The Kokomo Dodgers were a Minor League Baseball team based in Kokomo, Indiana, between 1955 and 1961. The 1956 Dodgers were a charter member of the Midwest League, as the Mississippi–Ohio Valley League changed names. Kokomo was an affiliate of ...
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Macon Dodgers
Macon may refer to:
Places Belgium
*Macon, Belgium
France
*Mâcon
** Ancient Diocese of Mâcon
**Mâcon, another name for the Mâconnais wine from that region
United States of America
* Macon, Alabama
* Macon, Georgia
* Macon, Illinois
*Macon ...
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Pueblo Dodgers
The Pueblo Dodgers were a Class A minor league baseball team that was located in Pueblo, Colorado and played in the Western League from 1947 to 1958.
History
An affiliate of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (1947-1957 and the Chicago Cubs (195 ...
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Santa Barbara Dodgers
The Santa Barbara Dodgers was the main nickname of minor league baseball teams in the Class A California League based in the Pacific Ocean coastal resort city of Santa Barbara, California.
History
The Santa Barbara Dodgers were an affiliate of th ...
Other:
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Hornell Dodgers
The New York Collegiate Baseball League (NYCBL) is a collegiate summer baseball league founded in 1978 and sanctioned by the National Alliance of College Summer Baseball, National Amateur Baseball Federation and Major League Baseball. Each NYC ...
, a collegiate summer team in the New York Collegiate Baseball League
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Jamestown Dodgers Jamestown often refers to:
*Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas
Jamestown may also refer to
Places
Australia
*Jamestown, South Australia
Barbados
*Holetown, Saint James, Barbados; sometimes called its fo ...
, in the New York-Penn League (1966)
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Kingston Dodgers, in the North Atlantic League (1947)
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Leesburg Dodgers, in the Florida State League (1949)
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Oshawa Dodgers
The Oshawa Dodgers were an independent, minor league baseball team of the semi-pro Intercounty Baseball League based in Oshawa, Ontario
Oshawa ( , also ; 2021 population 175,383; Census Metropolitan Area, CMA 415,311) is a city in Ontario, ...
, an independent minor league team based in Ontario, Canada (2002-2009)
Basketball
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Brooklyn Dodgers (basketball), in the Eastern Basketball Association (1977-1978)
American football
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Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC)
The Brooklyn Dodgers was an American football team that played in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) from 1946 to 1948. The team is unrelated to the Brooklyn Dodgers that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943. The ...
, in the All-America Football Conference (1946-1948)
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Brooklyn Dodgers (Continental Football League) (1966)
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Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)
The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers. The team played its home games at Ebbets Field of the baseball National League's team, the Bro ...
(1930-1943)
Hockey
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Weston Dodgers
The Weston Dodgers are a defunct Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey team from Weston, Ontario, Canada. They were a part of the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. The franchise was previously known as the Woodbridge Dodgers from 1953 to 1962, an ...
, a defunct junior "A" hockey team in Ontario, Canada
Fictional characters
*The
Artful Dodger
Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is a character in Charles Dickens's 1838 novel '' Oliver Twist''. The Dodger is a pickpocket, so called for his skill and cunning in that occupation. He is the leader of the gang of child criminal ...
, in the 1838 Charles Dickens novel ''Oliver Twist''
*Dodger, the eponymous hero of the 2012 Terry Pratchett novel ''
Dodger''
*Dodger, a dog in the Disney film ''
Oliver & Company
''Oliver & Company'' is a 1988 American animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released on November 18, 1988, by Walt Disney Pictures. The 27th Disney animated feature film, it is loosely based on the Cha ...
''
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Duck Dodgers
Duck Dodgers is the metafictional star of a series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros., featuring Daffy Duck in the role of a science fiction hero.
He first appeared in the 1953 cartoon short ''Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century'', directed by ...
, a cartoon parody of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, "played" by Daffy Duck
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Roger the Dodger, in the British comic strip ''The Beano''
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Dodger Savage, from the British teen soap opera ''Hollyoaks''
Personal nicknames
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Dodger Whysall (1887–1930), English cricketer
*"Dodger", an alias used by American video game designer and writer
Michael Stout (born 1980)
Boats
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USS ''Dodger II'' (SP-46), a United States Navy patrol boat
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Dodger (sailing) {{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot)
A dodger (also known as a spray-hood) is a frame-supported canvas (usually with clear vinyl windows) structure partially protecting a helmsman and other occupants of a sailboat from harsh weath ...
, a sailboat part
Other uses
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''Dodger'' (novel), by Terry Pratchett
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"Dodger" (''Arrow''), a television episode
See also
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Draft dodger
Draft evasion is any successful attempt to elude a government-imposed obligation to serve in the military forces of one's nation. Sometimes draft evasion involves refusing to comply with the military draft laws of one's nation. Illegal draft ev ...
, someone who tries to avoid being drafted into the military
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Dodger Dog
The Dodger Dog is a hot dog named after the Major League Baseball franchise that sells them (the Los Angeles Dodgers). It is a 10-inch pork wiener wrapped in a steamed bun. The hot dog is sold at Dodger Stadium located in Los Angeles, California ...
, a hot dog named after the Los Angeles Dodgers
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The Dodger Song, folk song
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Artful Dodger (disambiguation)
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Jammie Dodgers
Jammie Dodgers are a popular British biscuit, made from shortcake with a raspberry or strawberry flavoured jam filling. Introduced in 1960, they are currently produced by Burton's Biscuit Company at its factory in Llantarnam.
In 2009, Jammie Do ...
, a brand of biscuits
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