41.   My house is overrun with ball caps.

42.   No doubt there are marketing geniuses with voluminous studies about the hot colors, the hot ball caps, the hot T-shirts, the hot warm-up gear.

43.   Not just the ball cap, but the black satin Fubu baseball jacket and the baggy, prefaded Fubu jeans, impeccably pressed and cuffed.

44.   --On arriving in New York, Bush donned a New York Fire Department ball cap and greeted firefighters.

45.   One wore a ball cap turned backward.

46.   --On-line competition to bring in other supporters with incentives, such as T-shirts, ball caps, and mousepads.

47.   Participants are not paid, but may receive trinkets such as tie tacks, ball caps or gift certificates from sponsoring companies, Blackwell said.

48.   Others remember seeing the man in the ball cap recently.

49.   Otherwise, baseball fans should worry they might wake up one day and find Mickey Mouse ears growing out of their ball caps.

50.   Rather than low-ball the costs of a new midtown pleasure palace for George Steinbrenner, the mayor should address the louts who wear the same ball cap he does.