[Mick]

And why are they called the Dodgers Mick?

It's a pretty well-known fact that they were named because their customers had to dodge streetcars, or trolley cars in the vernacular of the day.  Some people think they were originally referred to as the Trolley Dodgers in the Scranton, PA Tribune on May 11, 1895, but in fact, the first reference to "Trolley Car Dodgers" was in a May 4, 1895 article in none other than the San Francisco Chronicle.  The actual word "Dodgers" didn't appear on their uniform until 1933.

What's less well known is that the old, 5 MPH, horse-drawn streetcars were replaced by 15 MPH electric street cars in 1892.  Pedestrians were unaccustomed to having to dodge (or Dodge) any vehicle to that point, if you stepped out in front of a horse, they would just stop.  But the new electric streetcars didn't and couldn't and wouldn't stop on a dime, so pedestrians got hit all the time.  The Brooklyn Dodgers were named after terrified pedestrians at a time when the streets formerly belonged to pedestrians.  Lots of children were killed and maimed by the new streetcars.  51 people were killed in 1983, 34 in 1894 because people weren't accustomed to having to look both ways when they crossed the street.

The Arctic explorer R. E. Peary said Brooklyn streets were more dangerous to travel than the Arctic.  By 1895 more than 100 people had been killed and 450 had been injured.

Before they were the Dodgers, they were known as the Bridegrooms because seven Brooklyn players got married on the same day in 1888.

[Mick]

And why are they called the Dodgers Mick?

It's a pretty well-known fact that they were named because their customers had to dodge streetcars, or trolley cars in the vernacular of the day.  Some people think they were originally referred to as the Trolley Dodgers in the Scranton, PA Tribune on May 11, 1895, but in fact, the first reference to "Trolley Car Dodgers" was in a May 4, 1895 article in none other than the San Francisco Chronicle.  The actual word "Dodgers" didn't appear on their uniform until 1933.

What's less well known is that the old, 5 MPH, horse-drawn streetcars were replaced by 15 MPH electric street cars in 1892.  Pedestrians were unaccustomed to having to dodge (or Dodge) any vehicle to that point, if you stepped out in front of a horse, they would just stop.  But the new electric streetcars didn't and couldn't and wouldn't stop on a dime, so pedestrians got hit all the time.  The Brooklyn Dodgers were named after terrified pedestrians at a time when the streets formerly belonged to pedestrians.  Lots of children were killed and maimed by the new streetcars.  51 people were killed in 1983, 34 in 1894 because people weren't accustomed to having to look both ways when they crossed the street.

The Arctic explorer R. E. Peary said Brooklyn streets were more dangerous to travel than the Arctic.  By 1895 more than 100 people had been killed and 450 had been injured.

Before they were the Dodgers, they were known as the Bridegrooms because seven Brooklyn players got married on the same day in 1888.