The Chicago White Sox of the late 1970s were known as much for their promotional gimmicks as their on-field play. Whether for failed stunts like Disco Demolition Night, or the 1976 game in which ...

Bill Melton, a star slugger for the Chicago White Sox in the 1970s who later became a fixture on their broadcasts as a pregame and postgame TV analyst for more than two decades, has died. He was 79.