CHICAGO – Once, the ruckus arose because Chicago Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett was shooting the breeze at Wrigley Field with mobster Al Capone and Capone's kid in the wake of the Capone gang's ventilation of much of Bugs Moran's North Side Gang in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929.
Other times (indeed, often times), the stories involved outfielder Lewis Robert "Hack" Wilson, who often recovered from a hangover by chillin' in a clubhouse bathtub in which floated blocks of ice, in full view of teammates and manager Joe McCarthy.
It didn't mean the Chicago Cubs were bad people, and certainly not bad at playing baseball, at least, not in the Jazz Age.