For many decades, the club was host of the annual Professional Baseball Player-Babe Ruth Cancer Fund golf tournament with stars such as Ty Cobb, Bing Crosby, Lefty O'Doul, Leo Durocher and many others.
Some of the baseball players, coaches, and managers taking part in the spring training Cactus League of Arizona stayed at the hotel, including Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Leo Durocher, the latter requesting Room 103 every time he visited, for its nearness to the lobby.
Leo Tolstoy | Pope Leo XIII | Leo Gorcey | Leo Burnett | Leo Brouwer | Leo VI the Wise | Leo | Pope Leo X | Leo Durocher | Wadada Leo Smith | Ted Leo | Pope Leo I | Pope Leo IX | Melissa Leo | Leo Carrillo | Ted Leo and the Pharmacists | Leo Castelli | Leo Burnett Worldwide | San Leo | Leo Strauss | Leo Marks | Leo Laporte | Léo Ferré | Leó Szilárd | Leo Slezak | Leo Frobenius | Leo Cárdenas | Pope Leo XII | Leonardo Leo | Leo Fall |
Leo Durocher of the Giants had led the Giants to the fall classic over Bobby Thomson's famous Shot Heard 'Round the World home run against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Lou Gehrig, Jim Thorpe, Leo Durocher, Hank Greenberg, Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain all played for these teams at one point in their careers.
(In 1942, Leo Durocher, then-manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, fined Bobo Newsom for throwing a spitball and "lying to me about it.")
He was a member of this group for the five years of its existence, then was retained as the Cubs' bullpen coach when Leo Durocher was named manager for 1966.