ESPN.com · Apr 7, 2016
Sources: ChiSox, Chance The Rapper near deal
Welcome to 2016, where a baseball team is on the cusp of signing a rapper who has eluded all the big music labels.
Sources tell ESPN that the Chicago White Sox are close to signing Chance The Rapper to a club ambassador deal that will pay the 22-year-old Chicago native to be part of club activities aimed at helping market the team to a younger audience.
Brooks Boyer, the team's senior vice president of sales and marketing, would not confirm any details of the pitch that was made to the man who was born Chancelor Bennett, but Boyer did spend much of the day talking about him.