THE ORIGIN
OF THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS
Alternative
baseball history based on alternating facts
The
Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers will compete for a World Serious
Championship this year – both with a German heritage.
The Milwaukee Brewers were a Charter member
of the American League in 1900. At that
time Milwaukee was a German immigrant town with German newspapers and German
spoken in the streets. In 1902 the franchise
moved to St. Louis changing their name to the ‘Browns’ then moved on to
Baltimore in 1953 as the ‘Orioles.’ The
Brewers minor league team did well. One
of their players, home run hitter, Joe Unser (Unser Choe Unser) was a folk
hero. However, the Brewers as Brewers never did win
a World Series, but came close in 1982.
As for the Dodgers, they were originally
from Dodge County, Wisconsin. They were
founded by a German immigrant businessman, Herr Bubi Pferdscheiße. Their home field
was in Baraboo, in Dodge County and they were called the Baraboo ‘Bubis.’ Lutheran Pastor Rev. Constipation Wartburger
did not like the name and it was changed to the Dodge County Dodgers. The Dodgers kept their name when they moved
to Brooklyn and then to Los Angeles.
Does
it matter who wins? We can watch
baseball and celebrate our immigrant heritage with bratwurst and sauerkraut – Best
of all, let’s cheer for Aguilar and Machado - keep America Great.
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| Bubi Pferdscheiße and his wife Brunhilda |
