Whatever Happened To Ted Williams Head?

A frozen moment in time and a Stumble Through July Playlist

The world is so connected these days and there are sites where you can find strange and bizarre news all over the world wide web.

But today, a phone call to Brooklyn raised the question:

“Whatever happened to Ted Williams's head?

Ted Williams, for you folks who don’t follow baseball, was one of the greatest batters of all time in Major League Ball in the USA.

His will said he wanted to be cremated. He was famous so of course there were other desires for his body and his head. His son John said that his Dad, Ted, wanted to have his body cryonically preserved.

Frozen, deep within a tube somewhere in Arizona by the Alcor Corporation.

Cryonics is the practice of preserving life by pausing the dying process using subfreezing temperatures with the intent of restoring good health with medical technology in the future.

No one has been brought back yet. No technique has been developed.

This is deep science fiction and a money-maker for Alcor.

220,000 dollars gets the entire body done and for 80,000 you can just freeze your head.

In 2002, when Ted passed away, his body was flown off to Arizona where the Alcor Company neuroseperated his head from his body and froze them for use in a tuna casserole later.

Rumour has it that when the deep freeze room was being cleaned up one day they removed Ted’s head and balanced it on a can of Bumblebee Tuna. I guess they had run out of baked beans. Supposedly during this clean up they also chipped part of his head.

I am unsure of the reliability of that information, but when you deal with snake oil salespeople anything is possible.

We can only wait until the day when they revive Ted’s head and reconnect it to his body. Will he play baseball again?

Or will his first words be, “Certainly, someone has made a very big mistake. I said cremate not refrigerate.”

I look forward to that day. Ted was a gnarly, deeply opinionated man with a large ego.

He is not going to be happy.

For you readers in Australia, you now do not have to have your body shipped to Arizona to be preserved.

In early 2023, after approval was granted in 2016, the Southern Cryonics has been opened up along the Hume Highway in Holbrook, New South Wales. Now you can get the wool pulled over your eyes in the Southern Hemisphere if you have a spare couple of hundred thousand dollars to get it all set up.

All I can say is, “Tell them they are dreaming.”

And don’t forget Holbrook is the home of a submarine, the HMAS Otway, even though it is 120 kilometers from the Ocean.

Go figure, of course, there is a reason, but you can delve into that submersible on your own.

Enjoy my Stumble Playlist….it’s a good one if I say so myself.