The Chicago White Sox announced two sponsorship deal with University of Chicago Medicine and Deerfield-based steel distributor Magellan Corp. on Friday, ahead of this weekend's annual SoxFest convention.

The University of Chicago Medicine partnership will tie the Hyde Park hospital to the team's Kids Club and Family Sundays promotion this season.

The hospital will be the "presenting sponsor" of all 13 Sunday home games this year, at which upper-deck tickets start at $5, stadium parking will be $10 (cut from $20), and kids will get to run the bases and get autographs after the game.

The sponsorship, announced this morning at Woodlawn Community School on the South Side, adds U of C Medicine to a Sox stable of partners that includes MillerCoors, U.S. Cellular, BP and United Airlines, among other.

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