Williams look good

[RichardSimon]

http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/.../2006/610.html

[mcgwirecom]

Ted used to have a website, or maybe he still does, hitter.com I won a contest back in 1997 and won this personalized signed photo. Not saying one way or another but just giving you a date of August 1997 on the letter from John Henry

[barrysloate]

Richard- interesting link regarding the forged John Henry Williams signatures that REA sold. Which leads to a question: since Ted Williams' son died, what is the status of Ted's body? Is it still cryogenically frozen? I hope that it's not, and that ultimately it was cremated as per his wishes. But I bet there might be a complicated legal issue with it.

[RichardSimon]

Good question Barry, since I have not seen any news about it, and you have not either, I would assume it might still be frozen.

[thecatspajamas]

Isn't it just his head that they had frozen?

Just did a quick google search to see if I was imagining things, and turned up this disturbing blurb:

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009...ion-foundation

"Workers at an Arizona cryonics facility mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams - even using it for a bizarre batting practice, a new tell-all book claims.

In "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former exec at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., graphically describes how The Splendid Splinter" was beheaded, his head frozen and repeatedly abused.

The book, out Tuesday from Vanguard Press, tells how Williams' corpse became "Alcorian A-1949" at the facility, where bodies are kept suspended in liquid nitrogen in case future generations learn how to revive them."

[barrysloate]

That's gruesome.

[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/.../2006/610.html

The John Henry Williams' forgeries depicted in this lot are obvious, slow choppy fakes. Not sure they would fool anyone and they are not close to the Green Diamond signatures I have seen. The Green Diamonds tend to be sloppy, but they have flow and were signed quickly from what I have seen. I always attributed it to the fact that they were signed later in life. Comparing a Green Diamond to Richard's beautifully signed inscribed photo, which was signed by a younger healthier Williams, is not a like comparison.

I think we have to be careful not to unjustly taint Green Diamond items based on John Henry Williams' bragging. If they are fake, they should be outed and destroyed. However, it should be done on solid evidence, not because of suspicions based on the fact that John Henry was an unsavory character.