41.   Final voting on the contract by union members will conclude this week.

42.   General manager Norm Sonju plans Monday to send a contract by facsimile to agent George Andrews.

43.   Gary DiSarcina, Troy Percival, Tim Salmon and Garret Anderson are among the players developed and wrapped up to long-term contracts by Bavasi.

44.   Gonzalez approved the deal between Enron Energy Services and Boston-based Constellation Energy Group.Constellation likely will assume all the contract by the end of May.

45.   He defended his contract by spewing statistics about the increase in attendance and revenue in the major leagues.

46.   He attended the practice at considerable personal risk, having not yet been signed to a contract by the team.

47.   He hopes to have him under contract by then.

48.   He was unsigned until he was offered a contract by Phoenix in January.

49.   He was signed to a minor league contract by the Seattle Mariners and then released in June.

50.   If all goes according to plan, Newark will sign an exclusive contract by the time school opens in September.