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Ricketts family's new team needs work

By Jon Greenberg
ESPNChicago.com

Sunday, August 23, 2009

CHICAGO -- It took only two-plus seasons, two division titles, two quick playoff exits, a trip to bankruptcy court, a few Sam Zell head fakes, the premature demise of Mark Prior's once-magnificent right arm, a couple of hundred turns of "Go Cubs Go" and enough money tied up in contracts to buy the Dominican Republic, rather than just its finest baseball players. But it's done. The Cubs have a new owner, pending approval by Major League Baseball and a bankruptcy judge, and it is the Ricketts f ...

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