Lawsuit To Stop Ted Williams Head Book

A lawsuit was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court to stop the book that claims Ted Williams' cryogenically frozen head was used for batting practice (well, an employee swung a monkey wrench at it to dislodge a tuna can stuck to it). The book's author, former Alcor COO Larry Johnson, says he never told Williams' family or authorities because he "was too scared for my life to say anything to anyone publicly until I was out of there." Alcor denies all of Johnson's claims.

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By Jen Chung in News on October 6, 2009 11:30 AM

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NannyState

I always serve my salade nicoise with chilled Frontus.

NannyState

-em, in reply to #3

ANGRYGOD11

There will always be someone selling the most insane concepts to the most desperate people. I'm glad this is coming out as it exposes what frauds these people were. The mistreatment of Ted Williams' head clearly shows these clowns didn't believe in what they were doing and weren't even going to pretend they did.

Mr Mel

But the guy hit 406. The City of Boston should have enshrined him like Lenin.

valeriob

awesome awesome awesome paragraph.

henryhamilton

This is the sort of thing that should be ignored. I failed. I know. There is no meaningful, constructive reason for information like this ever to be made public.

Dirk

What's the reasoning behind freezing your head? Let's say science does eventually figure out how to fix what ailed you... then what? You have no body!