A 76-year-old Jewish CPA who has loved the Phillies since the mid-1950s is enjoying his club’s postseason run while monitoring Israel’s war with Hamas around the clock.
Phillies season-ticket holder Norm Kotzker kept tabs on the Israel’s war with Hamas while attending Monday night's playoff game in Philadelphia with son Richard .season ticket holder who has been going to games since the mid-1950s was back in his Section 130, Row 10 seat at Citizens Bank Park on Monday night with essentials for a postseason baseball game that had a chance to be extra special.
Kotzker is sickened by Israel’s latest conflict, one that Hamas launched on Oct. 7 when hundreds of Palestinians went through and over a fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel and slaughtered more than 1,400 Jews while kidnapping hundreds of others. The victims in the massacre included hundreds of youngsters dancing at a party in the Negev Desert and babies who reportedly were decapitated at a kibbutz.
Tobey’s family was nearly wiped out by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. On the run, more than 150 of them were shot dead in a forest that now is part of Poland. “We walked in the third-base line for a night game and I saw this beautiful Kelly-green lawn,” Kotzker recalled. Sports always has been a getaway from work. He’s had Eagles season tickets for decades and shared Phillies tickets with a group of friends for many years. His favorite baseball season was 2008 when the Phillies won their second World Series.
“For the first 72 hours, I wanted Israel to wipe them off the face of the earth,” he said. “But now I think of all these poor Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the mothers and little ones who are getting dislocated and killed. The Palestinians there have to say, ‘Hamas is gone,’ which is easier said than done.
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