Poor Ted Williams

[E.J.]

Not only did he end up as a popsicle, but he also was decapitated and his head used for "batting practice"

 

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.

 

 

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

[Tarver]

Williams' severed head was then frozen, and even used for batting practice by a technician trying to dislodge it from a tuna fish can.

 

WTF???

[OleMissCub]

That's REALLLLY screwed up

[DiamondMind]

this is so crazy it's hard to believe it's even real. and every time I hear a ted williams story I think of the frozen heads of celebrities on futurama.

 

http://37prime.com/futurama_cartman.jpg

[Clem Fandango]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LCVZWFAEodk/RpMHezXzaOI/AAAAAAAAFtk/75yTjhMTH6Q/s400/WTF.jpg

[SpongeWorthy]

He'll never be the head of a major corporation.

[BCVM22]

He'll never be the head of a major corporation.

 

But he sure got ahead in life.

[Sosa21MVP]

Sounds like they were playing head games to me. Only way to get past that is to not lose your head.

[TruffleShuffle]

i know you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but john henry williams is the one who had his dad wearing a hitter.net hat instead of a red sox hat at the 1999 all star game. most people don't believe that ted wanted to be put in this ridiculous cryonics lab, but rather wanted his ashes scattered over the gulf of mexico. basically john henry williams manipulated his sick dad and tried to make money off him. [expletive] john henry williams.

[Guest]

i know you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but john henry williams is the one who had his dad wearing a hitter.net hat instead of a red sox hat at the 1999 all star game. most people don't believe that ted wanted to be put in this ridiculous cryonics lab, but rather wanted his ashes scattered over the gulf of mexico. basically john henry williams manipulated his sick dad and tried to make money off him. [expletive] john henry williams.

Didn't he get cancer?

[TruffleShuffle]

i know you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but john henry williams is the one who had his dad wearing a hitter.net hat instead of a red sox hat at the 1999 all star game. most people don't believe that ted wanted to be put in this ridiculous cryonics lab, but rather wanted his ashes scattered over the gulf of mexico. basically john henry williams manipulated his sick dad and tried to make money off him. [expletive] john henry williams.

Didn't he get cancer?

 

yeah he died about 5 years ago.

[javy knows my name]

kinda sounds like God fucked him then

[Guest]

Sometimes, I think we are way better off not knowing about some things.

[Gmoney08]

This type of treatment should never happen to the greatest hitter of alltime.

 

The only ballplayer that could warrant this treatment is Aaron Miles.

[Uber]

This type of treatment should never happen to the greatest hitter of alltime.

 

The only ballplayer that could warrant this treatment is Aaron Miles.

 

oh ho ho