Top 10 Best Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers Teams of All Time

The best Brooklyn team ever. After so many decades of last place finishes, also-rans, and so-close moments, the Dodgers finally got the monkey off their back and captured Brooklyn's only world championship. The New York Daily News front page said it best: WHO'S A BUM!

The Dodgers boasted a stack of Hall of Famers, including National League MVP Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, and manager Walter Alston. The Dodgers also had Gil Hodges, and in the World Series, they beat the hated New York Yankees and became the ultimate Boys of Summer.

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1963 can be summed up in two big words: SANDY KOUFAX. It was a year that he belonged with the best pitchers in baseball. He had a 25-5 record, a 1.88 ERA, and 306 strikeouts. The Dodgers battled with the St. Louis Cardinals for the pennant. Unlike 1962, there was no heartbreak. The Dodgers prevailed in the National League. They then shockingly swept the New York Yankees in four games to bring their third world championship back to Los Angeles. For his season, Koufax was awarded as he was named The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year.

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I don't believe what I just saw. Those words by radio announcer Jack Buck best described not just Game 1, but the entire Los Angeles Dodgers team, a team with just two proven stars and a manager who believed anything was possible. The team believed and did the impossible, bringing home a world championship for Los Angeles.

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My favorite series of all time!

It was an upside-down year in baseball, with a 50-day strike. The season was split into two halves, marking the unofficial beginning of the League Division Series. But one of the eight was the Dodgers, and they were led by outstanding young talent from Pedro Guerrero and Ken Landreaux. However, it was Fernando Valenzuela who became the hottest rookie of the year.

The Dodgers in the postseason were the Cardiac Dodgers, and it led to their oasis as they beat the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in Game 6 of the World Series to clinch their fifth World Title.

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Yes, 1947 was a banner year. It's where Jackie Robinson first played with the Dodgers, where the Dodgers won the pennant, where the first World Series to be played, and where Cookie Lavagetto and Al Gionfriddo shined in the World Series. Finally, it's where the Dodgers began an era of World Series appearances from 1947 to 1956.

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After an off season in 1964, the Dodgers were back in 1965 as they chased another World Series appearance. Standing in their way were the San Francisco Giants, a team ready for another World Series appearance. It all came to a head on August 22 when a fight broke out between the Giants' Juan Marichal and the Dodgers' Johnny Roseboro. The brawl became big news, but in the end, it was the Dodgers who clinched the pennant by just two games over the Giants. The Dodgers went on to beat the Minnesota Twins to win their fourth World Championship.

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"What a change of scenery!" said Vin Scully, long-time voice of the Dodgers, who described the 1959 World Series without a New York team for the first and only time in the 1950s. It was the Los Angeles Dodgers, a lightning-in-a-bottle team that won it all. They won only 86 games and had to survive a Milwaukee Braves team that was hungry for a third straight National League Pennant.

But the Dodgers survived the ordeal and won the Pennant in a two out of three NL Pennant Tie-breaking Series, and then the World Championship in six games. It was the Dodgers' first Championship representing Los Angeles, California.

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