Ted Williams' decapitated head

THAT's something you don't read everyday.

Example of (mostly) short-sighted and greedy media-seeking kids: 'once the media notices we put dad in the freezer, we can milk the publicity forever'

i'll bet alcor would've taken him if he wasn't famous. they'll take anyone who puts up the cake. john henry did put up $25,000 of the $136,000 needed to freeze dry his pop.

the most ghoulish thing about this (in my little mind) was john henry trying to convince his half-sister to sign onto this by saying he was going to sell their father's DNA! his half-sister quotes jh as saying "wouldn't it be neat to sell dads DNA? People would pay top dollar to have little ted williams's running around."

and then there's the fact that 8 of his DNA samples are missing. hellllll-ooooooooo cloning lab!

a sad, sad, fate for a veteran of two wars.

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/mlb/news/story?id=4524957

omg

I think that story will turn out to be a hoax; someone's just playing head games with us

FYI: a body is "decapitated"; a head is "severed"

http://www.unathleticmag.com/2009/10/19/ted-williams-just-became-the-best-halloween-costume-of-the-year/

"the only thing missing was a can of tuna"

The head is up and running again, and it's just been offered a job.

http://beta.ca.news.yahoo.com/cleveland-cavaliers-offer-job-homeless-ohio-man-smooth-20110105-083909-689.html

Weird thread, I know...Something I wasn't aware of: for a 162-game stretch, Tony Gwynn once hit over .400.

http://www.highheatstats.com/2012/06/the-year-that-tony-gwynn-hit-400/

nothing new here, just appreciating ted williams. for some reason i always forget about his losing the better part of two seasons to the korean war (in addition to the 3 prime years he lost to WWII)

it's not so crazy to assume that he would have put up at least 10 WAR in each of his lost 1943-45 seasons.

1941 fWAR: 11.0
1942: 11.6
...
1946: 11.8
1947: 10.5

and then a bit later on, during his mostly lost 1952-53 seasons, i'd guess he would have had 7+ WAR for both seasons, conservatively, given that when he came back in '54 he had 8.4 WAR in only 117 games, and then another 7.1 WAR in just 98 games in '55! that's just amazing.

his career OBP was .482! holy shit!

.388 AVG as a 39-year old, gtfo

I thought that the odd tale of Ted William's frozen head could make an interesting science fiction story about cloning. I think I was re-reading Dune when it happened and I imaged some type of Ted Williams ghola that would somehow remember he was "Ted Williams".

yeah i've seen stats from some of those dudes who lost time to the war, DiMaggio was another guy. He missed his age 28, 29, and 30 seasons completely to WWII service. Greenberg, too. In May 1941 he left to go serve, and returned to play less than half a season in 1945. When he left he was at his peak, and when he came back he had one great season left in the tank and that was it. Retired after 1947.

I've been fascinated with Williams' '52 and (especially) '53 seasons ever since I got my first MacMillan encyclopedia in '74. His slash stats were almost identical for the two seasons, one being 12 AB and the other 110: basically .400/.500/.900 for both.

http://i.imgur.com/rbiNwrx.png

FYI: a body is "decapitated"; a head is "severed"
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