Remembering Roland Hemond: Beloved executive was a friend to all in baseball — and helped save the Chicago White Sox from leaving town
After undergoing triple bypass surgery at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn in the summer of 2002, Roland Hemond, then an adviser to Chicago White Sox general manager Ken Williams, was sent home to recover.
When I called Hemond at his residence to check up on him, he replied: “It looks like I will only need to go on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Thursday. We won’t need to use the 60-day DL.”
That was vintage Roland, a baseball lifer who was one of the sport’s most beloved — and respected — executives. He was a friend of all scouts,
