Today (11/12/11) marks the fifth anniversary of the Trolley Dodger — this is the date back in 2006 that I registered the domain and prepared to move the baseball/Dodgers portion of my blogging from my primary site, celsius1414.com, to its own home. Here’s the very first post that day.
Thanks to everybody who have been around the last five years, especially my fellow Dodger bloggers. A big thanks as well to the team and its PR department, who have been open-arms with online fans and writers.
This has been a trying year to be a Dodger fan and, at least in my case, a Dodger blogger. I’m looking very much forward to the changes (ownership and otherwise) to come in the next few months, not to mention the hopefully swift recovery of a legendary franchise.
Thanks for reading!
Happy Anniversary! Here’s to five more years!
Congrats! Class of 2006 rules!
Congrats on Five Years of the Trolley Dodgers.
FYI, This Day in Early Dodgers History is a new feature on my on my Facebook page When the Dodgers Were Bridegrooms by Ronald Shafer.
Jan. 4, 1898: Charles H. Byrne, the co-founder and first president of the Brooklyn baseball franchise, dies in New York of Bright’s Disease at age 55. Sporting Life says Byrne “is easily the greatest magnate of them all.” Among other things, Byrne was the leading innovator of Ladies Day and invented non-smoking sections, the rain check, coaching boxes and the first triple header in baseball history