The autograph requests resume every season. The photo requests, too.
A fan is never far.
On an early July afternoon, the former bobblehead model sits in Citi Field’s home dugout. As Adam Stern, 34, arrives to watch batting practice, he spots the 72-year-old fiddling with his phone on the bench, and excitedly points out to his family:
“That’s Jay Horwitz!” Stern said.
For 39 years, Horwitz has been the Mets’ vice president of media relations, the constant on a carousel of chaos and crisis and celebration.
“For true Mets fans, Jay holds a kind of iconic status,” Stern said.