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Friday, October 2, 2009
Ted Williams’ head was used for batting practice?
Every time I turn around there is another author making yet another bizarre claim. This time it is the author of a book about the sad ending of the greatest hitter in baseball history (sorry, Pete Rose fans), Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox. In 1941 he was the last man to ever bat .400 over the course of an entire season.
Disturbing allegations are described in an article in the New York Daily News:
“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.
The book, out Tuesday from Vanguard Press, tells how Williams’ corpse became “Alcorian A-1949” at the facility, where bodies are kept suspended in liquid nitrogen in case future generations learn how to revive them.
Johnson writes that in July 2002, shortly after the Red Sox slugger died at age 83, technicians with no medical certification gleefully photographed and used crude equipment to decapitate the majors’ last .400 hitter.
Williams’ severed head was then frozen, and even used for batting practice by a technician trying to dislodge it from a tuna fish can.”
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