Drew Feltwell, Pennsylvania dad explains why he handed souvenir home run ball to Phillies Karen

Bounce Nation September 07, 2025
Drew Feltwell, Pennsylvania man explains why he handed home run ball to Phillies Karen, saying he wanted to set moral standard for his young son, Lincoln (pictured with dad).

A fan attending a baseball game with his son has talked of the now-viral moment he confronted by Phillies Karen, who demanded that the man's young son hand up the ball he had just handed to the youngster, arguing that the souvenir home run ball was properly hers.

The event occurred Friday night during the Miami Marlins' game versus the Philadelphia Phillies at LoanDepot Park in Miami. At some time during the game, Phillies outfielder Harrison Bader hit a home run into the left-field stands, causing fans to scramble for the souvenir ball.

Phillies Karen gets into a heated confrontation with Pennsylvania dad.


Drew Feltwell, a Phillies fan, appeared to recover the ball from the rafters in camera footage, implying that the souvenir ball was legitimately his. The father later stated that he gave the ball to his little son, Lincoln, as a birthday gift.

But this was not to be.

In the immediate moments after passing the ball to Lincoln, an unidentified woman, since called 'Phillies Karen' on the web, a slur for entitled white woman, argued the ball was hers, telling the father that it had fallen 'in her hands first' and demanded it be returned to her.

Viral footage captured the confrontation between the two Phillies fans, both decked out in Phillies team uniform, with Drew Feltwell along with Lincoln both cowering as Karen proceeded to lambast the parent.

The dad barraged by a volley of incriminations of theft and unfair sportsmanship eventually relented, giving the ball to the insistent woman.

‘No, you took it from me!’ Phillies Karen was captured yelling at the dad. ‘You took it from me! That was in my hands. That was in my hands.’

Drew Feltwell Pennsylvania dad teaches son a valuable life lesson
The episode led to Phillies Karen being widely condemned on the internet for her hostile behavior and self entitlement, as netizens now seek to identify the woman.

Explaining why he handed the ball back to the woman, Feltwell said that he just wanted her ‘to go away’. Speaking with NBC10 Philadelphia, Feltwell alleged that he was the only person to grab the ball after it landed on the seats.

He said that the woman was in the seat behind them, telling the outlet, ‘I don’t know if she was standing up. Maybe? But I was watching the ball from almost the bat to where it went into that seat.’

Feltwell also recounted the confrontation after the woman walked up to him. ‘I didn’t even see her walk up and as she reached for my arm, she just yelled in my ear, ‘That’s my ball!’ like super loud,’ he said.

He said that he had asked the woman why she was there, also asking her to ‘go away’. ‘And she’s like, ‘That’s my ball! You stole out of – those are from our seats.’ And I said, ‘There was nobody in that seat,’ you know,’ Feltwell told the outlet.
Drew Feltwell, Pennsylvania man explains why he handed home run ball to Phillies Karen, saying he wanted to set moral standard for his son. 

Drew Feltwell teaches son a valuable life lesson


He said that he did not remember what the woman had said, adding that there were ‘a lot of eyes’ on them and the ball was with his son. Feltwell said that the woman ‘just wouldn’t stop’.

‘I had a fork in the road: either do something I was probably going to regret or be dad and show him how to deescalate the situation so that’s where I went,’ Feltwell said, adding that he was not ‘very happy’ to give the ball to the woman, but they could not win.

In other words, the dad was ‘being the bigger person in the stadium, room’ in order to defuse the ensuing conflict.

But not all hope was lost.


Marlins employees later approached the boy, offering him a ballpark goodie bag. The boy also met Harrison Bader, who signed a bat and posed for photos with him.

Phillies Karen who was forced to leave the game early after being booed by other fans has yet to publicly respond to the incident. Until perhaps she is exposed by the internet which continues to seek to identify the unhinged woman.

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