Dodgers bidding field includes L.A's wealthiest: rival teams include billionaires and famous former athletes.

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Dodgers bidding field includes L.A's wealthiest: rival teams include billionaires and famous former athletes.

Eight years later, it's a whole new ballgame.

Back in late 2003 when the Los Angeles Dodgers were last up for sale, few local businessmen expressed interest in buying the team, leaving the way clear for Boston parking lot operator Frank McCourt.

Now, as this week's initial bidding deadline arrives, at least 11 local businessmen--five of them billionaires on the Business Journal's Wealthiest Angelenos List--have either expressed their intent to bid or are rumored to be in the bidding for the storied baseball franchise.

Among them (see chart): shopping mall mogul Rick Caruso, private-equity billio...

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