44 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 

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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