Dodger Explained

Dodger or Dodgers may refer to:

Sports teams

Baseball

• 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:

• Danville Dodgers
• Kokomo Dodgers
• Macon Dodgers
• Pueblo Dodgers
• Santa Barbara Dodgers

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

• Brooklyn Dodgers (basketball), in the Eastern Basketball Association (1977-1978)

American football

• Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC), in the All-America Football Conference (1946-1948)
• Brooklyn Dodgers (Continental Football League) (1966)
• Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) (1930-1943)

Hockey

• Weston Dodgers, a defunct junior "A" hockey team in Ontario, Canada

Fictional characters

• 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

• Dodger Whysall (1887–1930), English cricketer
• "Dodger", an alias used by American video game designer and writer Michael Stout (born 1980)

Boats

• USS Dodger II (SP-46), a United States Navy patrol boat
• Dodger (sailing), a sailboat part

Other uses

• 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

• 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