44 | AUGUST 18 • 2022

P

laying No. 1 singles on a high
school tennis team is a tough job.
It means facing the other team’s
best singles player in every match.
Lindsay Berke held that role in her
four years on the North Farmington
girls tennis team. Well, three years. Her
sophomore season in 2020 was wiped out
by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Berke was 11-8 as a junior and 6-9 as
a senior this past spring. Those numbers
don’t tell the story of her time at North
Farmington.
She graduated with a perfect 4.0 grade-
point average. She had a weighted 4.1

GPA as a senior.
“Graduating with a 4.0 GPA was a goal,”
she said.
North Farmington girls tennis coach
Andre Dupret said Berke’s athleticism
and mental fortitude were her strongest
attributes on the court during her days on
the Raiders team.
“Lindsay never gave up when she was
down in a match,” Dupret said. “She
always had positive body language. You
could never count her out.”
Berke served as a team co-captain
as a junior and senior, selected by her
teammates.

SPORTS

Lindsay Berke was a leader for the North
Farmington girls tennis team and a perfect student.

No. 1 on the Court,
4.0 in the Classroom

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

MARK BERKE

Lindsay Berke
serves during a
6-3, 6-0 win over
West Bloomfield’s
Sydney Liberman
last season at
North Farmington.

quick hits

Barry Bremen, the salesman and
marketing executive from West
Bloomfield whose impersonation
stunts made him a national celeb-
rity in the late 1970s and 1980s,
is the subject of a new ESPN E60
documentary.
But Bremen’s successes as
“The Great Imposter” getting on
the field at the All-Star Game as
a New York Yankee, at the World
Series as an umpire and an NFL
game as an official, playing nine
holes at the U.S. Open, dressing
as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader,
going through a layup line at the
NBA All-Star Game and accepting
a prime-time Emmy award aren’t

the focus of the documentary.
Instead, The Great Imposer
And Me tells the story of the
more three dozen people who
learned recently that the 6-foot-4
Bremen, who died of cancer at
age 64 in 2011, is their biological
father through sperm donation.
Jeremy Schaap wrote and
narrated the documentary. He
interviewed Bremen’s wife,
Margo, the three children she
raised with Bremen and several
of the biological children Bremen
never met.
The Great Imposer and Me can
be streamed on ESPN+ and it’s
being aired on ESPN networks.

BY STEVE STEIN

Two Temple Israel Teams
Parked in First Place

A long season on the diamond
is winding down for the Inter-
Congregational Men’s Club Summer
Softball League.
A rainout and parking lot work
at Drake Sports Park in West
Bloomfield delayed the scheduled
end to the weekly league’s season,
pushing back the final week of the
20-game regular season to Aug. 14.
Double-elimination playoffs
involving all 14 teams will be held
Aug. 21 and 28.
There was one close race for a division championship heading into
the final week of the regular season.
It was in the five-team Greenberg Division, where Temple Israel
No. 2 (15-3), Temple Israel No. 6 (14-4), Temple Israel No. 5 (13-5) and
Temple Beth El No. 1 (12-5-1) were in a battle for the title.
Temple Israel No. 1 was in first place in the five-team Koufax Division
at 12-6. Second-place Temple Israel No. 3 was 9-8-1.
Congregation Beth Ahm led the four-team Rosen Division with a
10-8 record. Temple Shir Shalom No. 3 was in second place at 8-10.

Barry
Bremen

ESPN

‘The Great Imposter’ Was the Father
of More Than Three Dozen