Welcome to the Free Ted Williams Web Site!

Most baseball fans call Joe DiMaggio the greatest baseball player in history. Joe DiMaggio called Ted Williams, “The greatest hitter in history.” Ted Williams is the most recent major league player to finish a season with a batting average of “.400” or better. That season was 1941. No one has done it since.

Ted Williams was inducted into nine Halls of Fame. He was league MVP twice, won baseball’s “Triple Crown” twice and played in eighteen All-Star Games. Ted Williams was named 1957 Associated Press Athlete of the Year and 1951-1960 Player of the Decade.

As well as being a baseball legend, Ted Williams was also a war hero. Ted Williams was the only Hall of Fame ballplayer who saw military service in two wars. He was a fight instructor with the United States Marine Corps in World War II and flew 39 combat missions in the Korean War - several of them as wingman for squadron mate John Glenn.

He earned over a dozen medals including three Air Medals, The Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, A Navy Unit Commendation, Korean Service Medals, top gunnery honors, wingman honors, and a place in the U.S. Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame. In 1998, Ted Williams was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, the equivalent of the military Medal of Honor.

Ted Williams was the first one to put forth the idea that players from the Negro League should be considered for membership in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He went on to become a successful Major League Baseball manager, then one of the most famous fishermen in American history. Some believe it was Ted’s campaigning for his friend George Bush that landed Bush his 1988 New Hampshire primary.

Ted Williams proved to me and generations of Americans that with perseverance and dedication you can accomplish anything you set your mind to. In California, there’s a highway named after him. In Boston, people name desserts, tunnels and children after him. One sports writer summed it up with, “When Ted Williams died America lost one of her greatest heroes. Without Ted and the rugged code of honor he lived by, baseball is a lesser sport.”

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Where is Ted Williams now?

On July 5th 2002 at the age of 83 Ted Williams was pronounced dead as a result of heart failure.  His body was secretly taken by private jet to Scottsdale, Arizona where his head was decapitated from his body and than placed (both head and body) into liquid nitrogen.  Ted Williams’ eldest daughter, Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell had fought against the process, saying that her dad had asked and requested in his Will to be cremated and his ashes, scattered off the Florida coast.

Currently, the greatest baseball player who ever lived, as well as a true American war hero, is being held captive and frozen in two separate metal devices at a cryonics laboratory in Scottsdale, Arizona.  As you will learn from this web site, this disposition was not in his formal Last Will and Testament of December 1996, nor did he ever contract for such treatment.  In short, Ted Williams' LAST WISH has been violated. 

Objective

The Ted Williams issue needs to be fully investigated; ALL of the evidence needs to be considered.  Federal and State lawmakers need to address some of the unethical and possibly illegal practices of this pseudo-science called “cryonics.”  The Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia has examined these potential issues and has elected to make the practice of cryonics illegal (look at Part 3, #14) in their province of Canada. 

If cryonics is to be considered a legitimate practice in the United States, it must be tightly regulated and monitored in order to avoid the tragic result and violation of an individual’s last wish. If it could happen to Ted Williams, then it can surely happen to anyone unless this tragedy is investigated and addressed.

Lastly, we must continue to petition the Arizona and Florida State authorities to re-open the Ted Williams case, with the objective to have Ted Williams' body released from this laboratory and his LAST WISH granted.

What Can You Do?

You can send online investigation request forms to the Arizona Attorney General office and to the Florida Attorney General office.

You can also contact any individual with the Arizona Senate or Legislature regarding your concerns about the potential unethical practice of cryonics and let them know how you feel.  For your convenience, I have provided their contact information below.

Arizona State Senate Member Roster

Arizona State Legislature Member Roster

Several articles on this website will provide additional information on the disposition of Ted Williams.  Please feel free to look around and ...

PLEASE HELP US FREE TED!

A YOUNG TED WILLIAMS
 

WITH THE HELP OF YOUR FANS, FRIENDS AND FAMILY, YOU SHALL BE DELIVERED (AS YOU HAD WISHED*) TO THE DEEP WATERS OFF THE FLORIDA KEYS.

*“1.1 Cremation. I direct that my remains be cremated and my ashes sprinkled at sea off the coast of Florida where the water is very deep.” (As stated by Ted Williams in his Last Will and Testament dated December 20, 1996. The last known LEGAL document regarding Ted’s last wish).

Many thanks to Bobby Jo Williams Ferrell and her husband Mark, Ted Williams’ nephews, Sam and Ted, Attorney John Heer, J.P. Polidoro, Alan Kunzman, Richard Jafferson as well as countless others who continue the crusade to FREE TED.