 While filming the scene in which Ace Merrill takes Gordies  brothers Yankees cap, Kiefer Sutherland (qv)s first instinct was  to put it on, rather than hand it to Eyeball Chambers. Reiner told  Sutherland not to put the hat on as a way of showing that Ace was  stealing it just to be cruel to Gordie and not because the hat  itself was at all important to Ace. Sutherland and Wheaton both  confirm in the DVDs behind the scenes documentary that the reason  that Gordie never gets the hat back from Ace is that Ace threw it  away immediately after stealing it from Gordie.