Remembering Roland Hemond: Beloved executive was a friend to all in baseball — and helped save the Chicago White Sox from leaving town

“It was a joy to be Roland’s friend, and our relationship extended all the way back to old Comiskey Park, where in our cramped offices, we would sometimes find an exhausted Roland catnapping on a countertop in his tiny office,” Sox senior executive vice president Howard Pizer said in a statement,