DODGERS BACK OUT OF EXTENSIVE STADIUM RENOVATIONS

          A "scaled-down" renovation plan of Dodger Stadium will
     add "as many as 30 luxury suites" by the start of the 2000
     MLB season, according to Robert Kuwada of the ORANGE COUNTY
     REGISTER.  The plan, which will also include additional
     field-level seats down the first and third base lines and
     between the dugouts, will cost "less than half of the
     organization's original" $200M renovation plan.  Dodgers
     President Bob Graziano: "When we were looking at the initial
     renovations ... we were looking at a renovation more like
     what we saw in Anaheim.  Right now, what we're focusing on
     is a much more limited renovation."  Construction will not
     begin until after the '99 season (O.C. REGISTER, 1/23).