Ted Williams
Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918–July 5, 2002) was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball. He played 21 seasons with the Boston Red Sox, twice interrupted by military service as a Marine Corps pilot. Nicknamed The Kid, the Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame, and The Thumper, he is widely considered the greatest hitter ever.[1][2][3] ......
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Though his will stated his desire to be cremated and his ashes scattered in the Florida Keys, John-Henry and Claudia chose to have him frozen.
During the cryonics process, Williams' head and body were frozen separately. Countless stories, doubtless apocryphal [but, as all with all apocryphal stories, they should be true] detail mistreatment of his head during the process.
To this day, Ted Williams’ Head remains the archetype of the refusal to accede to nature’s course, and attempt to stay well beyond one’s allotted time.
Source: Wikipedia, more or less.
I am a reluctant convert to the concept that language is a living entity, growing as new entries into the lexicon present themselves. I do, however, demand logical consistency, and if one is to welcome the birth of new words, one must also face the death of the old and tired ones, lest you have a lexicon of Ted Williams’ Heads. Towhit, today’s list TWHs:
