 The team was one of the worst White Sox teams ever, winning only 64 games (.398), drawing fewer than 915,000 fans.Veeck's strategy to make the team competitive quickly, dubbed "rent-a-player" by sports writers, involved acquiring star players entering the final year of their contracts.The theory was that the players would strive to put up huge numbers in hopes of getting a big contract at the end of the season, and carry the club with them.