NEW YORK -- Tom Fersch, the Mets' senior director of season tickets and group sales, died early Saturday morning at Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York City. He was 49.
Fersch passed away a little after midnight from esophageal cancer, in the company of his father and several colleagues and friends.
Though Fersch had been battling the disease for 18 months prior to his passing, he impressed co-workers within the organization by coming to work as recently as a week and a half ago. His desire to live was such that he underwent chemotherapy up until a week before his death, when doctors told him his body was no longer strong enough to stand it.
"He was sick, he was losing weight, he wasn't able to eat, he just never gave up," said team spokesman Jay Horwitz. "He knew he was dying for a long time. He knew what the score was, he just never gave up."
Fersch came to the Mets as an entry-level sales representative 17 years ago after working in marketing for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Seattle SuperSonics of the NBA. Prior to that, he had been a pitcher in college at Washington State University.
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