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LA Dodgers 1958 Wool Shawl Collar Sweater
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The Moment
The Dodgers didn’t just leave Brooklyn. They fractured a borough, uprooted a legacy, and turned the game westward. 1958 wasn’t just a new season. It was the year baseball crossed a continental divide. In this sweater — thick-knitted, with that heavy shawl collar like a coach might wear on a long train ride — you feel it. The pause between what was and what would become.
This isn’t fast fashion. This is a second-inning silence, a road trip through Amarillo, and a seat in the Coliseum’s left field seats — all stitched into a single layer of wool.
Product Details
Vintage-inspired alpaca/wool shawl collar sweater
Knit from soft, chunky gauge wool
Two-hole urea buttons
Sewn felt chest emblems
42% Cotton, 42% Viscose, 16% Alpaca
Dry clean only
Made in Peru
Shawl collar, like the ones worn in the dugout or batting cage
Felt “Dodgers” script, identical to the one worn on field coats of the era
Licensed by MLB, crafted by Ebbets Field Flannels
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The Year the Game Moved
In 1958, the Dodgers fractured more than a borough. They fractured tradition. And in doing so, reshaped the map of Major League Baseball forever.
This isn’t just a sweater. It’s a stitched reminder of the season when baseball boarded a train, rode west under heavy skies, and played in a football stadium that didn’t yet know the sound of summer.
Leaving Brooklyn
Walter O’Malley had seen the future. Brooklyn — as much as it loved its Dodgers — couldn’t build it.
Ebbets Field was aging, boxed in by blocks that wouldn’t budge. So O’Malley did the unthinkable: He moved the team west.
“It was like a death in the family,” one fan wrote in the Brooklyn Eagle. “They didn’t just leave — they vanished.”
The Dodgers were the first Major League team to play west of St. Louis. When they arrived in Los Angeles, they weren’t just newcomers. They were pioneers — carrying the weight of an entire league’s expansion with them.
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“It was like a death in the family,” one fan wrote in the Brooklyn Eagle.
1958 in Los Angeles
Their new home? The L.A. Coliseum. Originally built for Olympic track stars and football giants, it was no ballpark. The left field fence sat just 250 feet from home plate — so close they installed a 40-foot screen to contain fly balls.And yet, on April 18, 1958, 78,672 fans filled the stadium. They watched as the Dodgers beat their new rivals, the San Francisco Giants, 6–5. It was awkward, historic, and loud. The Dodgers had arrived.
The Season That Didn’t Care About Expectations
1958 wasn’t a championship year. They finished 7th in the National League. Duke Snider’s power waned. Gil Hodges was fading. But something was happening beneath the surface.Sandy Koufax, still wild and raw, started showing flashes. Don Drysdale threw with anger and sun-soaked velocity. The team was becoming something new. And Los Angeles — slowly — was learning to care.
The Sweater That Saw It All
This shawl collar sweater isn’t a replica. It’s a memory — heavy, woolen, and designed like what players and coaches wore on cold April mornings and long train rides through western hills.
Legacy in Stitching
In 1959, they’d win it all. But this sweater? It remembers 1958. The awkward in-between. The road games. The doubters. The players who wore Brooklyn on their backs and California on their sleeves.This is what it looked like to break from tradition without breaking character.
Final Call
Wear it like you were there — in the coliseum seats, scorecard on your lap, wool collar pulled tight against the early spring wind.This shawl collar sweater isn’t a replica. It’s a memory — heavy, woolen, and designed like what players and coaches wore on cold April mornings and long train rides through western hills.
Product Detaiks
Vintage-inspired alpaca/wool shawl collar sweater
Knit from soft, chunky gauge wool
Two-hole urea buttons
Sewn felt chest emblems
42% Cotton, 42% Viscose, 16% Alpaca
Dry clean only
Made in Peru
Shawl collar, like the ones worn in the dugout or batting cage
Felt “Dodgers” script, identical to the one worn on field coats of the era
Licensed by MLB, crafted by Ebbets Field Flannels
