LOS ANGELES – For Todd Boehly, the billionaire US businessman heading the consortium buying Chelsea in a 4.25 billion-pound ($5.2 billion) deal, ownership of a Premier League club is a long-sought move.
The 46-year-old from Virginia, who grew up a fan of Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles, was a key member of the ownership group that bought the Los Angeles Dodgers from Frank McCourt in 2012 for $2 billion — then a record for a North American sports team acquisition
In the decade since Guggenheim Baseball Management — the investment group that…
