600 ESPN EL PASO » Frankenstein http://krod.com ESPN and 600 ESPN El Paso, the leaders in sports in El Paso and the world! Tue, 21 May 2013 22:10:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 What's In a Nickname? Let's Give Nicknames to Some Dodgers Stars http://krod.com/whats-in-a-nickname-lets-give-nicknames-to-some-dodgers-stars/ http://krod.com/whats-in-a-nickname-lets-give-nicknames-to-some-dodgers-stars/#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 23:07:07 +0000 Ned Roach http://krod.com/?p=52326 What’s in a nickname?
The name Dodgers has its roots in the 19th century and their original home, Brooklyn, New York. Back in the old days…and I mean really old, not pre-Internet…Brooklyn was a maze of interlocking, crisscrossing trolley lines. Residents of Brooklyn had to maneuver through the trolley traffic and were affectionately referred to as “trolley dodgers.”

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