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Pinchrunner Reid Nichols took third on a wild pitch by reliever. Salome Barojas and Boston manager Ralph Houk sent Tony Perez to the plate to pinch hit for Jerry Remy. With the count two and two, Perez grounded out to shortstop Bill Almon to give the White Sox the victory...
Chicago came right back in the top of the seventh with its third run Almon beat a throw by Carney Lansford for his second hit of the game, and after Leflore took first on a force out and stole second. Tony Bernazard doubled him home...
...many cases, the differences between them and everyone else (including the salary differential) tend to fade, like the colors of a chameleon, after a few years in the corporate world. Others, however, seem permanently tinted, chameleons that have mysteriously evolved into some slightly more agile species of lizard. Robert Almon, for example, wears the predictable colors: pink Oxfordcloth shirt, blue-and maroon-striped necktie, gray suit, black loafers as polished as medieval armor. One of six children of a Rhode Island family (his younger brother plays shortstop for the Chicago White Sox), Almon majored in psychology and literature at Brown...
...Harvard, you have two or three hours to spend on a case that might deal with the bankruptcy of a corporation," Almon recalls, "so you get into the habit of thinking that you can deal with any problem quickly. In real life you don't have the luxury of skipping over details. That can result in horrible mistakes...
...Almon said Bok had not followed up on similar demands in 1972 and 1975. Seda added that "he just buried them under papers...