It's a trick as old as the Bronx Bombers themselves. Simply head down the Jersey shore, pick a random Yankee, pick a set of highly impressionable teenage girls and then use your impersonation skills to make the girls commit a naughty act they normally wouldn't.

Like give you free bagels.

From The Coaster:

An Asbury Park man has been cited by police for impersonating Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain at several places along the shore.

Ryan Ward, 29, was reported to Belmar Police Aug. 1 after telling workers at Belmar Bagels that he was the famed pitcher and accepting free food from girls working at the shop.

According to Captain Thomas Palmisano, Ward showed the girls a picture from a newspaper of Chamberlain and said he was the pitcher.

"The girls asked for his autograph and gave him free food," Palmisano said.

Ward, pretending he was Chamberlain, told the girls not to tell anybody he was in town.

I don't see what the big deal is. I get free apple fritters from Dunkin' Donuts nearly every morning by telling the ladies behind the counter that I used to be a relief pitcher for the Cubs. Today I said I was Heathcliff Slocumb.

(Tomorrow, Shawn Boskie.)

A big BLS head nod goes to Deadspin for the tip.