Nothing to do With Casey Anthony: KTRK Salutes 'Great Imposter'

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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.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.