‘Phillies Karen’ wasn’t identified, fired from New Jersey school district job

Claim:

After receiving a ball from a child in a large league baseball match, a woman called “Phillies Karen” was defined and then fired from her job in the New Jersey State School.

Rating:

The video of a woman who argued with a man in the big league baseball match between Miami Marlins and Philadelphia Phillies caused a woman to take a ball away from her male son, and in the beginning of September 2025, it was shared on social media.

The woman was detected and then the New Jersey claimed that she was fired from her job in the school area and wandered online shortly after the September 5 incident.

A user who shares the rumor Facebook shipment (archived), “The individual, a school manager in the New Jersey region, encountered a wave of reaction, the students left the Facebook page under hostile comments. According to reports, it is not expected to return to his position. Karma is real.”

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Other users on x (archived,), Instagram (archived) And Facebook (archived) In addition, some posts sharing the alleged name of the woman, Snopes readers about the rumor has spread the claim that led to the question.

The woman’s actions called her “Phillies Karen” on social media and told him about humiliating slang For “a specific type of white women who exhibit behaviors caused by privilege”.

However, the rumor was wrong that “Phillies Karen” was defined and later fired from his position in the New Jersey State School.

The region’s response

Various social media users described the woman in question as both Leslie-Ann Kravitz (archived) or Cheryl Richardson Wagner (archived), each of which was alleged to be a manager in the Hammonton School Region in New Jersey.

However, on September 6, Hammonton School Zone He addressed the rumor. Facebook Page (archived): “Social media ‘Phillies Karen’ described as the woman, New Jersey, Hammonton public schools in Hammonton are not any employees. Social media and news reports are wrong.”

The region said, “Everyone working for our school region, participating as a student or living in our community would avoid all this situation by capturing the ball with naked hand in the first place.”

In addition, after social media users began to send comments to a real New Jersey inhabitants named Cheryl Richardson-Wagner, Facebook Page (archived), “Okay everyone… I’m not a crazy Philly mother (but I would definitely want to be as thin and fast as it)… And I am a Red Sax fan.” He also changed the Facebook banner image to the Boston Red Sox logo and the profile picture to a screenshot.

There was no evidence that any real person, Leslie-Ann Kravitz, responded to the charges in this article. Hammonton has no name appear in the school zone websiteHowever, if we have reached the region for more comments and get a response, we will update this article.

Accordingly various news reportsIt turned out that the woman in the viral video has not yet been explained to the public.

What happened in the game

In the video, a woman faced a man and son after a host running by Phillies outside the field actor Harrison Bader. The woman was arguing with the man until I took the ball out of her son’s gloves and giving her to the boos from the crowd.

Man, Drew Feltwell, Philadelphia told WCau: “We were there to get a host ball, so I thought we had accomplished this wonderful thing and put it on his gloves, and he was just very determined and loud, shouting and insistent, and I didn’t want to deal with it anymore.”

To correct the situation, Miami Marlins gave the child a Goodie bag and wished him a happy birthday as the team is seen. social media calculations.

Although the family home team was rooted against Marlins, Feltwell said that other fans offer game balls to their son. “They were the fans of Marins, and we’re all in Phillies equipment, and I thought it was about giving a ball to take it home, and I thought it was incredible.”

Finally, Phillies invited the family to meet Bader after the match. The player gave the child a signed baseball stick, Phillies Social Media Accounts.

In another victory for Feltwells, Phillies defeated Marins 9-3.

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