Ted Williams' frozen head for batting practice at cryogenics lab: book

[many a good man]

BY Nathaniel Vinton
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Updated Friday, October 2nd 2009, 10:44 AM

Workers at an Arizona cryonics facility mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams - even using it for a bizarre batting practice, a new tell-all book claims.

In "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former exec at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., graphically describes how The Splendid Splinter" was beheaded, his head frozen and repeatedly abused.
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Johnson writes that the head was balanced on an empty can of Bumble Bee tuna to keep it from sticking to the bottom of its case.

Johnson describes watching as another Alcor employee removed Williams' head from the freezer with a stick, and tried to dislodge the tuna can by swinging at it with a monkey wrench.

The technician, no .406 hitter like the baseball legend, missed the can with several swings of the wrench and smacked Williams' head directly, spraying "tiny pieces of frozen head" around the room.

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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/02/2009-10-02_book_reveals_chilling_details_of_how_cryonic_lab_thumped_remains_of_baseball_imm.html


Cripes!

[wtmusic]

1. Cremation for me. nt

[Blue_Tires]

sacrilige!

[Junkdrawer]

2. Boy. When they thaw and reanimate that head, Ted's gonna be PISSED....

:rofl:

[pipi_k]

5. Either that, or...

he'll think he was at one hell of a kegger....


:7

[Junkdrawer]

6. Look for this to be a sight gag in upcoming Futurama episodes. n/t

[phantom power]

3. Oh well. The medical nano will reassemble him either way.

They might want to keep that book away from him after reanimation, however. For legal reasons.

[hadrons]

4. Its that asshole son of Williams that's responsible for this ....

John Henry Williams I believe, the kid is a parasite.

[Javaman]

9. Yeah!!! he supplied them with the can of tuna!!! nt

[Vidar]

7. How disgusting!

[Javaman]

8. Obviously they are not Boston fans. nt

[Algorem]

10. does the head wear a winter hat?could catch its death of a cold in there.

[Vinca]

11. Amazing. I thought the person who stole Ted's hunting license

from an auction preview was a low life. Using a head for batting practice is hard to wrap your brain around (no pun intended).