Dodger
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Dodger or Dodgers may refer to:
Sports teams
[edit]Baseball
[edit]- Brooklyn Dodgers, a Major League Baseball team (1911–1957), relocated to Los Angeles
- Cambridge Dodgers, a minor league affiliate
- Nashua Dodgers, a farm club
- Newport News Dodgers, a minor league affiliate
- Greenwood Dodgers, an affiliate
- Lamesa Dodgers, an affiliate
- Newport Dodgers, an affiliate
- Ponca City Dodgers, an affiliate
- Thomasville Dodgers, an affiliate
- Union City Dodgers, an affiliate
- Los Angeles Dodgers, a Major League Baseball team (1958–present)
- Arizona League Dodgers, an affiliate
- Artesia Dodgers, a former affiliate
- Dominican Summer Dodgers, an affiliate in the Dominican Summer League
- Green Bay Dodgers, a former affiliate
- Lethbridge Expos, known as the Lethbridge Dodgers while affiliated with the Los Angeles team
- Medford Dodgers, a former affiliate
- Odessa Dodgers, a former affiliate
- Oklahoma City Dodgers, current Triple-A affiliate in the Pacific Coast League
- Omaha Dodgers, a former affiliate
- Orangeburg Dodgers, a former affiliate
- Salisbury Dodgers a former affiliate
- Vero Beach Devil Rays, formerly Dodgers, a former affiliate
- Waterbury Dodgers, a former affiliate
Former minor league affiliates of both Major League teams:
Other:
- Hornell Dodgers, a collegiate summer team in the New York Collegiate Baseball League
- Jamestown Dodgers, in the New York-Penn League (1966)
- Kingston Dodgers, in the North Atlantic League (1947)
- Leesburg Dodgers, in the Florida State League (1949)
- Oshawa Dodgers, an independent minor league team based in Ontario, Canada (2002-2009)
Basketball
[edit]- Brooklyn Dodgers (basketball), in the Eastern Basketball Association (1977-1978)
American football
[edit]- Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC), in the All-America Football Conference (1946-1948)
- Brooklyn Dodgers (Continental Football League) (1966)
- Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) (1930-1943)
Hockey
[edit]- Weston Dodgers, a defunct junior "A" hockey team in Ontario, Canada
Fictional characters
[edit]- The Artful Dodger, 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
- Duck Dodgers, a cartoon parody of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, "played" by Daffy Duck
- Roger the Dodger, in the British comic strip The Beano
- Dodger Savage, from the British teen soap opera Hollyoaks
Personal nicknames
[edit]- Dodger Whysall (1887–1930), English cricketer
- "Dodger", an alias used by American video game designer and writer Michael Stout (born 1980)
Boats
[edit]- USS Dodger II (SP-46), a United States Navy patrol boat
- Dodger (sailing), a sailboat part
Other uses
[edit]- Dodger (novel), by Terry Pratchett
- "Dodger" (Arrow), a television episode
- Dodger (TV series), British children's television series, inspired by the Artful Dodger
See also
[edit]- Draft dodger, someone who tries to avoid being drafted into the military
- Dodger Dog, a hot dog named after the Los Angeles Dodgers
- The Dodger Song, folk song
- Artful Dodger (disambiguation)
- Jammie Dodgers, a brand of biscuits