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On a windy, foggy Friday, there was a break in the clouds as the Dodgers were finishing batting practice.
It wasn't quite Ferris Bueller weather, but for a while the sun shone brightly and it felt a little warmer at Wrigley Field. That was when Todd Boehly, his wife and three children walked from the first-base seats onto the warning track.
As Chad Billingsley stepped onto the mound to start his warmup, the Boehly family posed for pictures, Todd in a Dodgers jersey, unbuttoned, over his dress shirt. It was one more step in what has been a charged transition for the Chicago-based Guggenheim Baseball Management group, which seems to have picked exactly...
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