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 for the finest women's hockey players in the world to play in," he said in a phone conversation. "Put together with the right ownership, right resources, right support and with the right leaders, Mark and Billie Jean, I don't think any league could do better than that."
