Timeline: From Brooklyn to LA: the Dodgers' story

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Dodgers, one of baseball's most storied franchises, is up for sale.

Monday is the targeted deadline for first-round bids for the century-old team, the stadium and related assets worth an estimated $1 billion or more.

Following are some of the highlights of its run:

1890 - The team debuts in the National League. The "Bridegrooms," so called because seven players got married in 1888, win the championship that year, the first of 21 National League pennants the team would win.

The team acquires the name "Trolley Dodgers" for the warren of cars and tracks that once criss-crossed their home borough of Brooklyn, New York. "Trolley" was eventually dropped.

1916 - The club plays in its first World Series, a young Babe Ruth pitching for the opposing and winning Boston Red Sox. Ruth joined the Dodgers as a first-base coach in the late 1930s, the last time the Bambino would wear a major league uniform.

1918 - Season curtailed due to World War One

1920 - Team wins another league pennant, but begins a decades-long championship drought.

August 26, 1939 - Dodgers play the first televised baseball game, against Cincinnati.

1941 - They snap a 21-year drought with the National League pennant, with a 100-54 record.

1947 - Jackie Robinson joins the club, becoming the first African-American to play in the modern majors. He later also became the first African-American in the baseball Hall of Fame.

1952-53 - Back-to-back pennants kick off a stellar stretch for the Brooklyn ballclub under Walter O'Malley, who would remain president and chief stockholder for 20 years.

1955 - They narrowly defeat Yankees to win their first World Series championship.

1958 - They move to the West Coast after 68 seasons in Brooklyn, becoming the Los Angeles Dodgers.

1959 - They win their first World Series championship in Los Angeles.

1962 - They move from the Coliseum to Dodger Stadium, which remains their home.

1963 - They win the World Series over Yankees, led by pitcher Sandy Koufax, who would be a key again in the team's second championship of the decade, in 1965.

1977 - Tommy LaSorda becomes manager, succeeding Hall of Famer and 23-year Dodger veteran Walter Alston. LaSorda leads Dodgers to pennants in his first two seasons, only the second National League manager to do so.

1992 - They finish in last place with a record 99 losses.

March 19, 1998 - MLB owners approve sale of the Dodgers to the Fox Group, from the O'Malley family.

Jan 29, 2004 - MLB gives a green light to sale of the club to local businessman Frank McCourt.

April 2011 - MLB moves to take control of day-to-day operations, a highly unusual move intended to assuage concerns about the franchise's financial situation.

June 27, 2011 - Dodgers file for bankruptcy protection.

January 23, 2012 - First round of bids for the 112-year-old franchise to be submitted.

(Source: Dodgers Website; Editing by Maureen Bavdek)