Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. Most people his age wouldn't risk a series of operations. There is only one picture of John-Henry in her house. Her workout routines -- miles in a pool and on a treadmill, hours daily in a gym -- break the alpha dogs who try to hang with Ted's daughter. Days passed without her manic exercise routine, which she used to exhaust herself into a kind of peace. OL' TED WILLIAMS!" "Who's gonna take care of me?" "You won't always be there to protect him," a character in the movie tells the father, and Claudia smiles, turns to Eric and says, "John-Henry would've loved this movie.". Log In. TONY TOMSIC/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGE, THIS STORY BEGAN two years ago, when I reached out to Claudia about meeting at her home in Hernando. He preferred to spend offseasons in the woods or on the water. It's the same look her father got when she'd care for him in the last years of his life. He's everywhere. An experimental Alzheimers drug called lecanemab has been hailed as an historic breakthrough. She's the only thing I have left.". With just days to go before kick-off, Qatar banned beer from its World Cup stadiums. His lifelong feud with the press began when a writer asked rhetorically in a column what kind of boy didn't go home in the winter to visit his mother. TED'S HOUSE IS full of secrets about his son too, windows into a desperate but curious mind at work. Children who buried their parents were described as murderers. We talked for hour upon hour. Ted Williams' mother gave him nothing but a name, and as soon as he grew old enough, he gave it back, changing Teddy on his birth certificate to the more respectable Theodore. Any sport, anything really whether it be tying a fly, he wanted to be the best. CLIFF WELCH/ICON SPORTSWIRE/AP IMAGESThat was three decades ago. Soon she will face herself alone, as her father faced the world stripped of the soothing focus of baseball and fishing. She's searching, searching for a father, for a purpose, for a child, searching for the chance to complete what her dad started in the last decade of his life. It's thick, jammed with newsletters, receipts, contracts and John-Henry's handwritten notes taken during a visit to the cryonics facility. The story is about a boy trying to live in the shadow of his powerful and domineering father -- about a child searching for his place in the world. She walked past the hotel where he lived, long ago turned to luxury condos. He longed to rewrite the facts of his life. Her dream was to attend Middlebury College in Vermont. Prepare thyself, sir. And will it stick? Continue reading Queensland salutes JT . 1 prospect. Ettinger also made many other wild and foolish predictions about what science would bring to the world in his lifetime, so the book, like the Bible, is believable to those who want to believe. It's a mess, all of it. A heavy rain is falling, blurring the streetlights reflecting off the asphalt, and she looks out into the glare of the headlamps and sees something move. 10 pounds. Not confidential? For years, she'd thought her father had stopped maturing when he became famous at 20, and now they'd both reached his emotional age, equals and running buddies for the first time. In a closet next to her garage, her father's Orvis 8.3-foot, 7-weight graphite fly rod leans on a wall. he yelled. A leading nonprofit public media producer for nearly 60 years, The WNET Group presents and distributes content that fosters lifelong learning, including multiplatform initiatives addressing poverty, jobs, economic opportunity, social justice, understanding and the environment. Henry Leutwyler for ESPN MagazineHer husband, Eric Abel, comes home from running errands. Meet Daniel Norris, the most interesting pitcher in baseball. All they had was each other, and both longed to decode their dad, and maybe find themselves in the process. "He never thought he was gonna be a good father," Claudia says. Impossible to hit, even harder to defend, Floyd Mayweather is fighting to leave the ring the way he entered it: Standing. Meet Daniel Norris, the most interesting pitcher in baseball. With Ted's remains in stasis -- they didn't hold a memorial service, not even a small, private one -- she hasn't moved past grief into acceptance and peace. "Do you think they accepted me because of Dad?" "It's time to let them go.". She got the kids. He felt vulnerable. Doctors gave her electroshock therapy. Nobody quoted is without an agenda, whether fueled by anger, misunderstanding, jealousy or love. Bobby-Jo came into the world first, in the middle of his career. Becoming a man in his father's eyes? He beamed, and the next day, everything about him seemed different, and not just because he wore Red Sox gear head to toe. But I love him.' His show, An Evening at the Carlyle, which played at the Algonquin Theater in New York City, was chosen by United Press International as the hit of the season. Tapper has authored five books including A Guy Goes Into a Bar, and the novella Conversations with Max. Outside of the entertainment field, Al has made venture capital investments in financial institutions, medical and sports products. The wires and the hoses and the sawdust on the floor amplify how much those memories have faded. It smelled like him. One afternoon, she gets a frantic phone call and rushes to her mom's bedside less than a mile away. Ted's old study would make a perfect nursery. At some point during the session, instead of signing his name, he wrote a note to Claudia, one he knew she'd discover someday. Investigators came to the house and interviewed both men, asking whether Ted was being made to sign autographs against his will, before determining there was no abuse. "Dad, you have to take this medicine," John-Henry would be saying. Around 2005, she started playing tennis with some older ladies in the neighborhood. When the boat docked back at Pier 39, they walked down the boards looking for dinner. She let me poke through the family's filing cabinets, its safes, her dad's hospital records, anything I wanted -- she could prove, she said, that her father agreed to be frozen. ""Just tell me you love me," she said. For a season, at 37 years old, she competed against teenagers. Ettinger wrote that the freezer always trumped the grave, and with nothing to lose, why not take a chance? She felt time rushing away. About Albert M. Tapper Productions Russia says 63 soldiers were killed in a missile attack Ukraine says 400. Who's telling the truth? "It'll be all right," he said.According to Claudia, that's when John-Henry returned to the Williams family favorite: the nonbinding, casually written contract. Like I didn't deserve to be happy. "Everyone who knew Ted Williams knows that his daughter's going to Duke would mean more to him than his home runs and war medals combined. "The guilt Ted carried slipped away when he did something to help his kids. "I don't know who has to say, 'You did well,'" says Abel, who was the Williams family attorney when he met Claudia.When she decided to be a lifeguard, she completed the most advanced open-water rescue training. If I do I will pay my mom 1,000 dollars. Latest by Claudia Williams How the manhunt for the Monterey Park mass shooter unfolded By Claudia Williams with wires That night, like always, he wrote in his fishing log. Through never-before-seen archival footage and in-depth interviews with those who knew and studied Williams, including his daughter Claudia Williams, author/journalist Ben Bradlee, Jr., veteran . Sitting on her couch, she cries when the dragon saves the little boy. "Right from the start, we knew we weren't gonna have much time, you know? Get in touch at claudia.williams@theadvocate.com.au or on 0448 310 641 "I don't know who has to say, 'You did well,'" says Abel, who was the Williams family attorney when he met Claudia. Her top choice is Duke, and in her application essay she talked about her life as a frustrated athlete without a sport. A toxic train derailment in Ohio has become a political football. Soon Ted gave them praise that would never reach their ears. She checks her mom's blood pressure: 86/60 and dropping. The live-in caretaker is crying. They tried to understand his rages, and why they'd even been born. "Jesus," he said, then he walked away.By the time Eric Abel came into the Williams inner circle as the family attorney, Ted had already excommunicated Bobby-Jo. His bat being the brush and Fenway Park is the canvas. She's young because her dad was much older than her mom -- Ted, the eternal player, tossed Dolores Wettach a note across the first-class cabin of an international flight, introducing himself simply as a fisherman -- starting Claudia's lifelong struggle to hold tight to something slipping between her fingers. After seemingly endless summers on the golf course with my dad, I received my college degree and landed my first job as an Assistant Golf Professional after graduation. Michael Kantor and Albert M. Tapper are executive producers. Both would sign it, and the crisis would be averted.Even as he fought him, Ted knew John-Henry was struggling to find his place in the world. He was difficult, so she tried talking to him about baseball. It was everything against his grain to succumb to this outside influence of children. It's thick, jammed with newsletters, receipts, contracts and John-Henry's handwritten notes taken during a visit to the cryonics facility.He filled six yellow legal-sized pages, jotting down the price for freezing just the head ($50,000) and the price for the entire body ($120,000), making charts and decision trees plotting the potential repercussions of cryonics. When you laugh -- "She interrupts him. He throws 96. NINE MONTHS AFTER that trip, he had a stroke. Instead of Bobby-Jo becoming the first Williams to graduate from college, which Ted wanted as desperately as he wanted to hit a baseball, she got pregnant. This is her FATHER! Ted's old study would make a perfect nursery. Terrified of Ted raging at them, John-Henry quietly fed her ice chips and got her ginger ale when she vomited from sun poisoning. After Ted died, friends told reporters that Williams disagreed with his son's obsession. Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic professional sports league in the United States and consists of 30 member clubs in the U.S. and Canada, representing the highest level of professional baseball. Hello. He died in 2002 and is frozen at 7895 East Acoma Drive in Scottsdale, Arizona. "Daddy would sit right here," she says, laughing. "She asks him again about creating and raising Ted Williams' grandchild. "But he is interested. Finally he got his first fish. Everyone settles in, and the movie starts."Toothless!" Claudia is beautiful and familiar, her face a combination of her mother's Vogue model cheekbones and her father's all-American jaw. A vulnerability he never had in his life. John-Henry died on a Saturday, and as he requested, his body was suspended at Alcor too, in the same tank as his dad. Finally Eric realized she needed to escape, so he put her in the back seat of his car, covered her with blankets and snuck her past the cameras. They tried bee pollen and acupuncture and hired a therapist to work through his anger. With time, she's come to regret not having a funeral. That was three decades ago. Trouble is, nobody knew how to start to repair something so completely broken. Abel goes into the study and comes back with the book. She talked about the influence of her father, but she never mentioned that the father in question was Ted Williams.textWilliams hits one of his career 521 home runs, shown here in the late '50s. 9 closing behind them. Every patient who walked through the door would get treated like Ted Williams. At home, he brought her back to health and felt hurt when she wanted to roam outside. she asked, "or do you think they accepted me because of me?". Seeing the joy she brought to the elderly, long her favorite group of people, reminded her of an old man she treated as a student nurse. She checks her mom's blood pressure: 86/60 and dropping. "Do you think they accepted me because of Dad?" Toggle navigation. In this stubbornness, she found the emotional stability sought but never discovered by her brother, who died 11 years ago from leukemia. How did the manhunt unfold and what do we know about the mass shooting? "The legacy deserves to go on," she says finally, crying harder than before. One afternoon, she gets a frantic phone call and rushes to her mom's bedside less than a mile away. They spent hours at that table, talking, playing the games he never got to play as a kid -- As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives -- and debating religion and the nature of life and death. "Mom's having a bad day," she tells him. I live right behind you. He filled six yellow legal-sized pages, jotting down the price for freezing just the head ($50,000) and the price for the entire body ($120,000), making charts and decision trees plotting the potential repercussions of cryonics. Soon she'll be studying online for a master's degree from one of the greatest universities in the world. Eric asks, kindly. Claudia Williams is a journalist for The Advocate covering general news and events. He opens it on the kitchen counter, the pages full of his notes, some passages marked with a check if he feels they're accurate, other quotes highlighted and some with sharp, angry pen strokes when he's aggrieved, the margins littered with "not true" and "bulls---" and "lie." he asked. He loved anything small and weak. 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And we actually showed him that not only was he good at it, we wanted him and we said, 'You can do this, Dad.' "She's tired. "It was a bright, sunny day, and I was there. How many children are strip-searched by the police and who are they? Ted drove her back to her mom's house in Miami once, and when they arrived, it transpired that Bobby-Jo had forgotten her keys, and Ted, raging, kicked her out of the car and left her standing alone there in the dark, exactly as his mother had done to him. He signed the rest, and the whole box went into storage. Once, when Abel was flying to San Diego to meet with the Upper Deck baseball card company, Ted pulled him aside. His will, which he wrote near the end of the fishing act of his life, made his wishes very clear. she says suddenly. ", Bobby-Jo lashed out, and Claudia hid, and John-Henry got as close as he could. Hooked, she decided to play at the local junior college. Stop!" A man at a card table was reading palms. It hurts too much. Mr. That night, like always, he wrote in his fishing log. Through never-before-seen archival footage and in-depth interviews with those who knew and studied Williams, including his daughter Claudia Williams, author/journalist Ben Bradlee, Jr., veteran baseball writer Roger Angell and award-winning broadcasters Bob Costas and the late Dick Enberg, the documentary demonstrates the power of the heroic myth-making culture in which Williams flourished. "He thought I needed salt," she says, then switches to her flawless Ted Williams impersonation, a chin-jutting bass drum: "Yup, isn't that GOOD? So many firsts happened on that trip. Ukraine's New Year's Eve missile attack on a Russian target in the Donetsk region has led to wildly differingaccountsfrom both sides. The lessons that he had to teach us, we didn't have the time to learn. He'd been retired for eight years. He never mentioned a pregnant Dolores, and he never mentioned the boy.To the public, he was a success, but to himself, he was a failure, consumed with shame and regret. Pressure is growing on Israel and Hamas to announce a ceasefire. "I've had a great life, and what the hell, if I die, maybe I'll die on the table. Months passed, and after trying every other option available to buy time, only surgery would help Ted. He had a cousin who was murdered by her husband, and a criminal brother who died young and angry. As she parks her car and goes into the house, she's deciding whether to share an idea that has been gaining momentum and fervor. "F--- you.". Nick Trotta is executive producer for Major League Baseball. Eric rushed home and found her sitting at the computer, quiet and solemn, validated for perhaps the first time in her life. Maybe she'd just find ways to exhaust herself, and find obsessions to occupy her mind, day after day, year after year, never breaking free of her father and never feeling as if she had honored his memory either. With the continued success of MLB Advanced Media and MLB Network, MLB continues to find innovative ways for its fans to enjoy Americas National Pastime and a truly global game. On page 5, Ettinger seemed to be speaking directly to John-Henry: "The tired old man, then, will close his eyes, and he can think of his impending temporary death as another period under anaesthesia at the hospital. Find Claudia Williams's email address, contact information, LinkedIn, Twitter, other social media and more. She found the note three years ago, 10 years after he died, going through memorabilia. He knew he might not live through his procedure, and at the end of his life, he'd finally put aside his own wishes for theirs. At some point during the session, instead of signing his name, he wrote a note to Claudia, one he knew she'd discover someday. Bradlee's book strongly suggests, without ever saying so directly, that she was lying about being there. It hurts too much. Ted Williams tried to follow that advice. Like any damaged person, he took his protection too far. Dad.". She's searching for how to say goodbye, or maybe a way to move on, which often feels like the same thing.Today Claudia and husband Eric are looking at options to carry on her father's legacy. Lots of GPs are leaving the profession, and we cant recruit or train new ones fast enough to fill the gaps. She says she visited the hospital so many times that all those trips ran together, but she remains steadfast: Ted signed a piece of paper. "You could see an internal struggle," Abel says. They spent hours around the dining table, and every so often John-Henry would bring it up. "The doctor nodded and scheduled the surgery. Ted's white Sub-Zero fridge with the wood-paneled front is unplugged in the corner. In letters home, she described being adrift, telling her dad she felt "like a lost athlete looking for a sport." "You were sobbing," says Eric's daughter Emma, now 22, grinning as she tells the story. by Eli Saslow, Once one of college basketball's brightest coaches, Jason Rabedeaux died mysteriously in Saigon, leaving his loved ones and colleagues to grapple with how far he'd fallen. In the night, he heard a kitten crying, and after searching for and finding her, he tucked the cat, fleas and all, into his bag. Claudia, a nurse, listens to the plodding thumps of a tired heart. Instead, she sat in her car in the parking lot, stewing, wondering whether he just wanted to show off "Ted's daughter," and finally she drove away, enraged, leaving the fins behind.Upon occasion, she curses exactly like he did, stringing together blistering oaths, a kind of profane poetry: "that whore of a bitch f---ing c--- of a bimbo," say, of a nurse who spoke to reporters about the family. She also has considered using her egg and Abel's sperm to create a child, going back and forth between the ideas. She feels lonely. Everything about him is interesting in this gnarled, difficult way. Get in touch at claudia.williams@theadvocate.com.au or on 0448 310 641 The dining table used to be there, by the window. We seek to challenge power and encourage democratic debate YouTube. She especially loves movies about dragons. The first time they visited Ted in Florida together, he made sure she knew not to annoy him, advising her to use the bathroom before leaving the airport. Reminders of grief surround her, and now her mother is fading too. by Tim Keown, May 2 fight will seal Mayweather's legacy. Claudia has spent considerable time looking for documents that would prove she was in the hospital for the signing of the informal contract. Claudia Williams is a journalist for The Advocate covering general news and events. Toggle navigation. she coos. He should be cremated, his ashes "sprinkled at sea off the coast of Florida where the water is very deep.". Where does that leave first-time buyers? The house felt different than before, desolation replaced by hope. she says suddenly. "I mean, he had [me] at 53 years old," Claudia says, her voice wavering. The house is empty inside, dangling wires and pencil marks on the walls indicating where a range will go.
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