Ted Williams Frozen Head: Ball at Alcor Life Extension Foundation

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In a shocking revalation today, workers at an Arizona cyronics facility called Alcor Life Extension Foundation, are said to have used MLB's Ted Williams' frozen head as a ball in a game of baseball, according to a new tell-all book. 

Larry Johnson, a former executive at the facility has written a book called Frozen that describes how workers beheaded the baseball legend and then used it for a ball in their batting practice.

It was in 2002 shortly after the Red Sox player died at age 83 and was brought to the facility that technicians with no medical experience used crude instruments to decapitate the head of Ted Williams and took photographs while they were doing so.

His head was then frozen and used for batting practice and was held in place in its case by being balanced on a can of Bumble Bee tuna.

Larry Johnson was the chief operating officer at Alcor until 2003 when he wrote his book and went in to hiding, fearing for his life. He as received death threats since and has moved from safehouse to safehouse. He plans to make his first public appearance on ABC's Nightline on October 6th.

He claims that he wired himself for this last three months at his job, so that he could recored what happened, and he stole internal records that appear in the book.

Other shocking moments in the book tell of how workers dismembered live dogs injected with chemicals and dumped human blood and chemicals down the drain.

The book also talks about the bodies of gay rights activist John Dentinger and the mother of a donator Dora Kent being involved in 'suspicious circumstances'.

The most gruesome subject in the book appears to be what happened to Ted Williams however, whose body was sent to the facility by his son John Henry Williams. He was reported to have been stored in a steel tank alongside cardboard boxes and junk.

Larry Johnson writes in his book that the workers drilled holes in Williams' head and put in microphones while they poured in liquid nitrogen so that they could hear his brain cracking.

A worker would try to dislodge the tuna can stuck to the bottom of the head by swinging at it with a monkey wrench and sometimes missing and spraying 'tiny pieces of frozen head' around the lab.

Ted Williams' family was charged $120,000 for keeping his body at Alcor and Johnson writes that workers would joke that they were going to send Williams' thawed remains back to his family if they didn't pay their bill.

Larry Johnson has told this story before in Sports Illustrated and through trying to sell photos of Williams' corpse and this time he hopes his book will let the truth come out.

Many doubt the validity of Johnson's claims.

Alcor has released a statement about the allegations:

"Alcor denies allegations reported in the press that there was mistreatment or disrespectful treatment of the remains of Ted Williams at Alcor, and will be litigating this and any other false allegations to the maximum extent of the law."