Ted Williams story... WOW!

[The Brain]

SI Report: Williams' body decapitated; DNA missing


August 12, 2003
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ted Williams was decapitated by surgeons at the cryonics company where his body is suspended in liquid nitrogen, and several samples of his DNA are missing, Sports Illustrated reported.

The magazine's report, appearing in the issue that hits newsstands Wednesday, is based on internal documents, e-mails, photographs and tape recordings supplied by a former employee of Alcor Life Extension Foundation.

After Williams died July 5, 2002, his body was taken by private jet to the company in Scottsdale, Ariz. There, Williams' body was separated from his head in a procedure called neuroseparation, according to the magazine.

The operation was completed and Williams' head and body were preserved separately. The head is stored in a steel can filled with liquid nitrogen. It has been shaved, drilled with holes and accidentally cracked 10 times, the magazine said. Williams' body stands upright in a 9-foot tall cylindrical steel tank, also filled with liquid nitrogen.

The procedure, approved by Williams' son, John Henry, and daughter, Claudia, carries a $136,000 bill. Alcor claims it is still owed $111,000.

The magazine said that according to a taped conversation between former Alcor chief operating officer Larry Johnson and a board adviser, eight DNA samples among 182 taken from Williams are missing without explanation.

Spokeswoman Paula Lemler, wife of Alcor chief executive officer Jerry Lemler, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that company officials had not seen the article and would have no comment.

 

[vpkozel]

I hope John Henry Williams rots in hell. That fucker. Words can't describe how pissed off I am at him for what he did to his father - both when he was alive and dead. Replacing the Red Sox cap with that hitter.net cap at teh all star game chapped my ass - but he should be fucking locked up for this. Ted Williams deserved better than this. Fucking asshole piece of shit John Henry Fucking Williams.

Fuck, I'm pissed.

 

[Charlotte2002]

I hate this guy as well, my good friend was on the Baton Rouge Riverbats, until he was unloaded to make room for this schmuck.

 

[gridfaniker]

more of the story


motherfuckers

 

[vpkozel]

I almost threw up reading that story. Seriously - there should be something done about this. Teddy Ballgame deserved better.

 

[vpkozel]

These are the memories we should have been left with.....

A birthday visit to The Kid

By Frank Deford

Originally posted: August 26, 1998

There can be nothing more disheartening than seeing an old person who we remember for the glories of youth -- a beautiful actress, say, now a faded flower. We want so much to think that people like that will always be the way they were.

And now, you see, I'm going to meet with Ted Williams, Teddy Ballgame, just before he turns 80 years of age. Number 9, The Splendid Splinter, eternally The Kid. For all his names, always and forever, foremost just The Kid.

I think it was Bob Knight, the basketball coach, who said that Williams was the only person, ever, who was the best in the world at three different things: hitting a baseball, fly-casting and piloting a jet fighter plane. A young fellow named John Glenn was his wingman in Korea.

Now we're at Williams' house, where he lives on the west coast of Florida, at 9 Ted Williams Drive, which is up on what is advertised as the second-highest hill in the Sunshine State. Anyway, it looks down on his museum, an absolute gem of a place that doesn't celebrate baseball stars. No, it celebrates baseball hitters.

And just so there's no mistake, when Ted Williams means hitters -- when he picks hitters for his museum -- he doesn't mean those punch-and-judy choke-up guys. A hitter, according to the best hitter there ever was, is somebody who can hit for power as well as hit for average. You got that?

And here comes Ted now. He's in shorts, with -- yes -- a Boston Red Sox cap on ... and he's using a walker. But I will tell you something: As impossible as it seems, even with a walker, Ted Williams has a swagger. Yes, sir.

Now he sits down, and boy is he ... fun. There's a baseball encyclopedia there, which we refer to regularly. Unlike a lot of great athletes who only play a game that comes naturally to them, Williams is an unadulterated baseball fan, a baseball expert. "Isn't that McGwire something!" he calls out in abject joy ... and admiration, too.

There is no jealousy in the man -- I suppose, because there's no insecurity if you're the best in the world at three different things. He works on the Veterans Committee to get his old lesser buddies into the Hall of Fame with him. He's also taken on the crusade of getting Shoeless Joe Jackson admitted to Cooperstown. Suddenly, in fact, Ted has an imaginary bat in his hands, and, sitting there, he's showing you how Ty Cobb swung, hands apart, pushing the ball, but then he's Shoeless Joe: smooth and full-out, like this ... well, like Ted Williams would swing when he came along in l939.

When Williams went into the Hall himself, he used much of his speech pumping for baseball to allow in the African-Americans from the old Negro Leagues. Now he's going to induct the great Japanese slugger, Sadaharu Oh, into his museum -- and what's the matter with Cooperstown? It's baseball isn't it, not American baseball?

The energy, the enthusiasm pours out. Once Ted Williams was "controversial," so-called. Joe DiMaggio, elegant and distant, a Yankee not a Bosox, was more honored. But, in time, the appreciation for Williams, the hitter and the man, has passed DiMaggio, passed them all. When I leave, I can only think: Damn, now this is an American.

Later that day, I see Williams again. He bursts into a crowded room where some very serious baseball fans are assembled, puts aside his walker and bellows out: "Any Marines in here?"

He'll celebrate his 80th birthday this Sunday, August 30th. Happy birthday, Kid.

 

[metro]

more proof that athletes are just that....good athletes. thats it. They make as poor or worse decisions than the rest of the world. usually worse decisions. Ted probably wanted it too.

 

[vpkozel]

Originally posted by metro
more proof that athletes are just that....good athletes. thats it. They make as poor or worse decisions than the rest of the world. usually worse decisions. Ted probably wanted it too.

I am not sure that I understand your point? Are you saying that you believe that he wanted to be frozen? And that the only document that this guy - who was so meticulous in everything he did - left behind to show his wishes was an oil stained scrap of paper that he had signe like he would an autograph, instead of the signature his daughter said he always used for legal documents?

 

[Bunky]

wasn't this a simpson's episode?

 

[The Brain]

Originally posted by Bunky
wasn't this a simpson's episode?

the Simpsons have done everything already