The Desecration of Teddy Ballgame Continues

One minute, you're a war hero, a national legend, and the greatest hitter in the major leagues. The next, you're dead and your cretinous son is producing a dubious document saying your final wishes were to have your head severed and put in a deep freeze in Arizona.

That's all bad enough, but a new book by Larry Johnson alleges that Ted Williams' head was abused by employees at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale. That's not the former Charlotte Hornet Larry Johnson, but a former executive at the company, who's blowing the hell out of his whistle on his old employers. He says he's got internal records and recordings of some nefarious deeds at the facility, particularly of one technician taking practice swings at #9's head with a monkey wrench.

Man. If you can't trust for-profit pseudoscientists, who can you trust?

If you missed the whole saga of the terrible way the Splendid Splinter's death went down, his son John Henry Williams (a serious piece of work, in so many ways) claimed that Ted had written and signed his desire to be frozen on a napkin. Seriously. The rest of the family claimed that that was ridiculous, and that Ted had always wanted to be cremated. Someone finally decided that the ink-stained napkin would hold as a legal document, and off went The Kid to begin the newest and saddest chapter of his story.

John Henry, who died of leukemia in 2004, is also reported to be resting comfortably at the Arizona facility, waiting for the day when future generations are able to wake Junior up and slap him around for putting Ted and the rest of us through this. Or he's being used as a fungo bat, which might be more fitting. We're not sure.