Here’s why a Phillies fan gave away his son’s home run ball
A fan of Philadelphia Phillies obtained a home ball struck by Harrison Bader and proudly placed it in the glove of his 9 -year -old son Lincoln.
A few moments later, the same fan withdrew the ball from the glove of his son and gave it to a woman who said that she rightly belonged to him.
A few days after the now viral incident took place during the fourth round of the 9-3 of the Phillies victory against the Marlins on Friday in Miami, Drew Feltwell explained to the NBC-10 in Philadelphia that he decided for the moment to “be a dad and to show him how to defuse the situation.
“We were there to get a ball at home,” said Feltwell, a Florida resident whose wife and girl were also in the match. “So I thought I had accomplished this great thing. And putting it in its glove meant a lot. She was so categorical and noisy and screaming and persistent, and I didn’t want to face it anymore.
“There were hundreds of people who were just looking at it. And as I said, she was very, very, very close, and I am a dad of the family, so I didn’t want to do something I would regret. And that was the choice I made, put her back on the ball and tell her to leave.”
Feltwell said he was the first to go to the ball after landing in an empty seat “on a few seats” on his right. He said he was starting to leave with the ball when other people, including the woman who finally confronted him, began to catch her.
“I guess she thought it was her ball because it was in front of her,” said Fellwell. “It’s good, but it was too slow.”
Lincoln, however, did not leave the game empty -handed. A marlins representative visited the family to his seats and presented to the boy a bag full of memories. Then, a phillies representative invited the family to meet Bader outside the team’s clubhouse after the match. There, the nine -year -old veteran who was acquired from the Minnesota Twins on the deadline for trade signed a bat for Lincoln and posed for photos with the group.
Lincoln told NBC-10 that it is unhappy to have the ball at home, “I’m happy to have been able to get something else.”
And, he added: “It was very, very fun to meet Bader.”
Feltwell said he has no bad will towards the so-called Phillies Karen who ended up with the ball at home.
“I don’t wish him any harm. I would like to have this special ball to put the wall next to its bat, and I got around 500 promises that they will get the ball. ”
Even so he said, “I hope no one will do anything stupid to get it.”
