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Dodgers leadership is behind new women's hockey league to launch in 2024

Mark Walter attends Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation annual Blue Diamond Gala at Dodger Stadium on June 16, 2022, in Los Angeles, California.

LOS ANGELES — Mark Walter, chairman and controlling owner of the Dodgers, and his wife Kimbra will be the main financial backers of a women's professional hockey league that plans to begin operating in January.

Tennis legend and women's rights advocate Billie Jean King and her wife, Ilana Kloss, who are minority owners of the Dodgers, will be board members of the new league, the league announced Friday in a news release. Dodgers President Stan Kasten also will be a member of the board.

"What we were after was the best league ever built

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