He was, by turns, part of an air rescue squad during the Vietnam War, founder of what became the nation's largest custom-prosthetic-device company, a ski bum, a bureaucrat in the Carter Administration and a stockbroker for Prudential-Bache Securities.

FORBES: Ski, Fish And Pitch

His first big roll of the dice is on Custom, the alias of Duane Levold, a towering Canadian who was the subject of a noisy bidding war last summer between Field and DreamWorks.

FORBES: Field of Dreams