The concept originated by Tommy Lasorda who popularized it with his saying "Cut me and I'll bleed Dodger blue.

"[2] Lasorda managed the franchise in Los Angeles for 20 years from 1977 to 1996, and was on the player roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers, though he played for them only very briefly.

In 1989, the team's famous Dodger blue was added to a color database.

Paul Raveling, a software engineer who in 1989 was working at the Information Sciences Institute at USC, had been “tuning” colors to be properly displayed on computer monitors.

"[3] The current standard RGB color space was defined in 1996, seven years after “dodgerblue.”