Nothing to do With Casey Anthony: KTRK Salutes 'Great Imposter'
This is fun, and this has not a thing to do with Casey Anthony, which should appeal to a lot of people these days.
With the Major League Baseball All-Star game coming up next week, KTRK Houston salutes the Mitty-esque life of Barry Bremen, who snuck into pro sports stadiums and arenas, including the Astrodome for the 1986 All-Star Game in a Mets uni, and impersonated a professional athlete in warmups.
Bremen’s antics seem a bit quaint in the post 9/11 security world.
The clip of former Dodgers skipper Tommy Lasorda’s profane lambasting of of Bremen is particularly humorous.
As KTRK’s Bob Allen reports, Bremen died of cancer last week.
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Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.