Edwin Chambers Dodson, known as the Yankee Bandit because he wore a Yankees cap and sunglasses during most of his holdups, robbed 72 banks in Southern California in the early 1980s and the late 1990s.

A woman who just recently moved to Atlanta told 1010 WINS' John Montone that even in Hotlanta the Yankee cap is a hit. "Wearing a Yankee fit, you're down with the trend," she said.

It is a truism , born in Hollywood westerns, that the good guys wear white hats. Now from New York comes word that the bad guys prefer Yankee caps. In the last 10 years more than 100 suspects or ...