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.

He was the first Black player to win MVP in White Sox franchise history. Allen returned to Philadelphia for the 1975 and 1976 seasons before going to the Oakland Athletics and retiring in 1977.