RIP Ted. Here's hoping the rest of baseball can come to it's senses and fix these labor problems before making a mockery of all of the sad passings in the game this year.
RIP Teddy Ballgame, the greatest hitter ever to live. Maybe the Sox can win it in your memory this year.
Ted Williams - Frozen at age 83 Source: Williams' body is already frozen by Michael Lasalandra and Laurel J. Sweet Monday, July 8, 2002 HERNANDO, Fla. - Red Sox legend Ted Williams already has been frozen in a cryogenic state, a source told the Herald last night. But Williams' eldest daughter vowed yesterday to head to court as early as today to try to have her father's body returned to Florida from Arizona, where it has been prepared for possible regeneration. Barbara Joyce "Bobby Jo'' Williams Ferrell, his daughter from his first marriage, wants to halt the cryogenics plan allegedly being orchestrated by her controversial half-brother, John Henry Williams. But the source said Ted Williams may have agreed to being frozen. "It wouldn't surprise me if Ted was deep into this. Ted loved science. Ted Williams was not a stupid man. If he made up his mind about something he did it and (expletive) everyone else. "To blame it all on John Henry is not fair. Ted loved John Henry.'' Ferrell said she was told by sources within Hooper's Funeral Home in Inverness that her father's body was shipped out last Friday - the day he died at 83. The body was sent to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., where it will be stored at minus-320 degrees until scientists figure out how to bring Williams back to life. Meanwhile, other friends and associates of the Splendid Splinter yesterday joined with Ferrell in insisting the Hall of Fame slugger wanted to be cremated. "I'm 100 percent sure Ted wanted to be cremated,'' said Haywood Sullivan, a former owner and general manager of the Red Sox, who was a catcher for the club when Williams retired. "Where he wanted his ashes spread, I don't know. Whether it was Fenway Park or the Keys he wanted his final resting place to be, I don't think Arizona was one of them.'' click for complete article from the Boston Herald
I heard this on Jim Rome yesterday...If Ted Williams gets frozen, will he be known as "the icicle"? I know, it's a little tacky, but I was laughing my ass off. I guess I just like dark humor for some reason...
