The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams (126 page)

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Authors: Ben Bradlee Jr.

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Ebers, Judy
(one of Ted’s favorite caretakers),
Edwards, Daniel
(sculptor of “death mask,” a crude impression of Ted’s frozen head),
Edwards, Dyterius “Digz”
(befriended John-Henry on the Schaumburg Flyers),
Egan, Dave, Jr.
(son and namesake of the legendary “Colonel” Dave Egan),
Ehrenreich, Rich
(managing owner of Schaumburg Flyers),
Elderkin, Phil
(friend of Red Sox beat writer Ed Rumill),
Ellis, Gary
(fishing guide),
Engle, Roy
(boyhood pal of Ted),
Englund, Craig
(Ted’s Citrus Hills neighbor),
Ensinger, Ferd
(longtime friend of Ted and John-Henry),
Epstein, Mike
(Senators slugger; “Super Jew”; now teaches Ted’s hitting methods),
Erb, Debbie
(one of Ted’s nurses),
Eschen, Rich
(friend and associate of Ted and John-Henry),
Ettinger, Robert
(pioneering cryonicist),
Evanish, Hank
(flight instructor of Ted’s in World War II),
Ezelle, Reverend Dawn
(gave Ted a Bible embossed in gold with her name on it)

Faloon, Bill
(cryonics figure and Saul Kent associate),
Feigner, Anna Marie
(widow of softball legend Eddie Feigner, who knew Ted),
Fekeshazy, Margaret
(wife of Alex Fekeshazy, a fishing guide for Ted on the Miramichi),
Fekeshazy, Walter
(son of Alex Fekeshazy),
Felix, Cindy
(former facilities operations manager at Alcor),
Fenety, Jack
(former director and president of the Miramichi Salmon Association; friend of Ted),
Ferguson, Tommie
(former Boston Braves batboy and Angels traveling secretary; longtime friend of Sox clubhouse man Don Fitzpatrick),
Ferrell, Bobby-Jo Williams
(Ted’s daughter and his oldest child),
Ferrell, Mark
(Bobby-Jo’s husband),
Ferris, M. P. “Pat”
(owner of fifteen hundred acres on Cat Island in Georgetown, South Carolina, next to Tom Yawkey’s South Island),
Ferris, Robert
(served with Ted at Cherry Point before his recall to Korea),
Ferriss, Dave “Boo”
(pitcher for the Red Sox from 1945 to 1950),
Ferriss, Miriam
(Boo’s wife),
Ferroli, Steve
(John-Henry’s hitting coach),
Finger, Barry
(memorabilia collector; partner with Ted and Antonucci in Talking Baseball),
Finnegan, Brian
(son of Huck Finnegan,
Boston Evening American
writer),
Fisher, Jack
(Orioles pitcher; gave up Ted’s final home run),
Fitzpatrick, Spike
(lawyer for Bobby-Jo in her litigation
against John-Henry and Claudia),
Flanagan, Pat
(former Red Sox front-office employee),
Flavin, Dick
(humorist and friend of Ted),
Fleischmann, Donna
(worked for John-Henry),
Fleming, Bill
(Red Sox pitcher in 1940 and 1941),
Fletcher, Teresa
(EMT who was in the ambulance with Ted the day he died),
Foley, Michael
(former Red Sox doctor and friend of David Pressman, below),
Ford, “Jeep”
(longtime family friend of Tom Yawkey in Georgetown, South Carolina),
Ford, Ralph, Jr.
(son of Ralph Ford, a fine-foods grocer who was Yawkey’s best friend in Georgetown, South Carolina),
Forester, Al
(longtime Fenway grounds crew member; drove Ted out on golf cart at ’99 All-Star Game),
Forman, Lane
(former memorabilia dealer; involved in lawsuit against John-Henry),
Frakes, Bill
(longtime
Sports Illustrated
photographer; did the shoot for the 1996 cover article on Ted),
Francisco, Dick
(Marine Corsair pilot in World War II and Korea; served with Ted at Pensacola during World War II),
Franzoni, Janet
(friend of Ted and Louise; widow of Bob Franzoni, fishing buddy of Ted),
Fredo, Joanne
(youngest daughter of Joseph Urezzio, friend of Ted’s uncle John Smith in Mount Vernon, New York),
Friend, Owen
(infielder; played fourteen games for the Red Sox in 1955)

Gallen, Jonathan
(did memorabilia work with Ted for ten years),
Garagiola, Joe
(former Cardinals catcher; caught against Sox in ’46 Series),
Garciaparra, Nomar
(former Red Sox shortstop and friend of Ted),
Gard, Jack
(one of Ted’s caretakers),
Gardner, Marea
(widow of Tom Yawkey’s nephew Bill Gardner),
Gartlan, Robert
(made two thousand collectible porcelain Ted figurines, which Ted signed),
German, David
(military records specialist),
Gernert, Dick
(played for Red Sox from 1952 to 1959),
Gerow, Stacia
(Ted’s longtime personal assistant),
Giacobbe, Andy
(former TV repairman at Somerset Hotel; knew Ted; later moved to Citrus Hills and volunteered at Ted’s museum),
Gile, Don
(played for Red Sox from ’59 to ’62),
Gilmore, Grant
(son of Isabel Gilmore),
Gilmore, Isabel
(Ted’s lover in the late ’50s who rejected his marriage proposal but remained close to him late in life),
Gilmore, Marshall
(son of Isabel Gilmore),
Gleason, Jim
(former San Diego Padres pitcher who used to throw to Ted on the playground when they were growing up),
Glenn, John
(former astronaut, senator, and friend of Ted who flew with him in Korea),
Glenn, Mike
(lawyer friend of John Burgess, above, and Buzz Hamon, below),
Godwin, Rebecca
(teacher at Bennington College and author of
Keeper of the House,
a novel based on the Sunset Lodge in Georgetown, South Carolina),
Gonzalez, Ruth Ponce
(Ted’s first cousin once removed),
Goodband, Clifford, Jr.
(his father was the veterinarian to Ted’s dogs in the 1950s; took batting practice as Ted pitched),
Goodman, Allan
(Ted’s doctor at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, 2001),
Goodman, Eric
(friend of John-Henry; worked on Ted’s security detail),
Goodspeed, Hill
(Navy historian),
Gordon, Herb
(bought Ted’s house in Islamorada),
Gorman, Lou
(former Red Sox general manager),
Gowdy, Curt
(longtime Red Sox announcer and friend of Ted),
Grace, Buddy
(Keys fishing guide who knew Ted),
Green, Pumpsie
(first black Red Sox player; infielder from 1959 to 1962),
Grieve, Tom
(played with Senators and Rangers under Ted),
Grinold, Jack
(polio victim
in the late ’40s; visited by Ted in Boston),
Gumpert, Randy
(pitcher with the Sox for part of 1952; pitched for the Yankees from 1946 to 1948),
Gunn, John
(former reporter and editor involved in military baseball),
Gutteridge, Don
(played for Red Sox in 1946–47)

Hammon, Reverend Tony
(started Island Christian School, John-Henry and Claudia’s grade school in Islamorada),
Hamon, Buzz
(former Ted museum director),
Hardy, Carroll
(outfielder for Red Sox from 1960 to 1962; known as only man to pinch-hit for Ted),
Harrington, John
(former Red Sox CEO),
Harshman, Jack
(played the first half of ’59 with the Red Sox),
Hartman, Sid
(Minnesota sports personality; as a boy, saw Ted play with the Millers; befriended him),
Harwell, Ernie
(longtime Tigers announcer; knew Ted as a young reporter in Detroit in the ’40s),
Hash, Herbert
(pitched with the Sox in 1940 and ’41; briefly Ted’s roommate),
Hatton, Grady
(played for the Red Sox from 1954 to the early part of 1956),
Hawkins, Larry
(Marine pilot who led Ted home safely in preparation for his crash landing in Korea),
Haworth, Bill
(Alcor PR man),
Hayes, David
(escorted Ted’s body from Florida to Alcor, in Arizona),
Hebding, Francine Dawn
(Bobby-Jo’s daughter and Ted’s granddaughter),
Heer, John
(Cleveland lawyer who represented Bobby-Jo in cryonics litigation against John-Henry and Claudia),
Helman, Clifton
(CPA and business adviser to John-Henry and Ted),
Helman, Rob
(Clifton Helman’s son, who worked with his father and also dealt with John-Henry),
Henry, Bill
(pitched for Sox from 1952 to 1955),
Henry, John
(Red Sox principal owner),
Herrera, Edna
(wife of Sal Herrera; retired LAPD officer),
Herrera, Manuel
(Ted’s first cousin once removed; brother of Sal),
Herrera, Salvador
(grandson of May Venzor’s sister Mary; first cousin once removed of Ted and older brother of Manny Herrera),
Hiley-Self, Virginia
(one of Ted’s nurses),
Hill, Peter
(lawyer who took Hitter.net through bankruptcy),
Hillerich, Jack
(longtime president and CEO of Hillerich & Bradsby, makers of Louisville Slugger bats),
Hillman, Darius “Dave”
(pitched for the Red Sox in 1960 and 1961),
Hinrichs, Paul
(pitched four games in 1951 with the Red Sox),
Hisner, Harley
(pitched one game for the 1951 Red Sox),
Hitchcock, Billy
(infielder for Red Sox, 1948–49),
Hoeft, Billy
(played five games for the 1959 Red Sox between stints with the Tigers and the Orioles the same year),
Hoffman, Dick
(he and his brother Tom, now dead, spent time with Ted in Minneapolis in 1938),
Hoffman, Jon
(retired Marine colonel, Marine historian, and writer; interviewed about Ted’s military records),
Hogerheide, Robert
(former Ted chef),
Holcombe, Ken
(pitcher for 1953 Sox),
Holetz, Jean
(Doris Soule’s childhood best friend),
Holland, John
(flight instructor with Ted during World War II),
Hollenbeck, Marvin
(former Marine who flew with Ted in Korea),
Hommell, George
(friend of Ted; neighbor in Islamorada),
Hooper, Dwight
(proprietor of Hooper Funeral Homes & Crematory),
Hopper, Peter B.
(founder of Internet company Duro Communications; discussed buying Hitter.net with John-Henry),
Horgan, Tim
(longtime sportswriter for the
Boston Herald
and
Boston Evening Traveler
),
Hoskins, Herb
(state investigator in the Antonucci case),
Howard, Lee
(Ted’s second wife),
Howard, Roy
(Princeton, Minnesota, mail
carrier who knew Ted a bit),
Hoyt, Carl
(eighty-one-year-old Weare, New Hampshire, hunter and fisherman; knew Ted since 1950),
Hudson, Sid
(pitcher for Sox from ’52 to ’54; pitching for Senators in ’41, he grooved pitches to Ted in the next-to-last series of season to aid in Williams’s quest for .400; also pitching coach with Senators under Ted),
Hughes, Charles
(son and only child of Hazel Weisse, madam of the Sunset Lodge),
Hull, Bill
(nephew of Minnie Williams, Sam Williams’s second wife),
Huntsinger, Elizabeth
(author of
Ghosts of Georgetown,
which contains a chapter on the Sunset Lodge brothel),
Hurley, Cornelius, Jr.
(the son of Cornelius Hurley, a former partner in the old Boston firm of Hale and Dorr and confidant of Ted’s who died in August of 2002 at the age of ninety-six),
Hynes, Samuel
(professor of literature at Princeton who served as a Marine aviator with Ted at Pensacola during World War II)

Inamorati, Frank
(tennis pro at Citrus Hills; Ted friend),
Interland, Brian
(friend of Ted and business partner with John-Henry in Grand Slam and the Ted Williams Card Company),
Irvin, Monte
(Hall of Fame player, first with Negro Leagues then with New York Giants)

Jackson, Ron
(played for Red Sox in 1960),
Jacobs, Eli
(former Orioles owner; friend of Ted),
James, Bill
(baseball’s sabermetrics guru),
Jensen, Swede
(Ted’s old chum from Hoover High; played on the Padres from 1939 to 1949),
Johansen, Joe
(Islamorada fisherman),
Johnson, Larry
(Alcor whistle-blower who wrote a controversial book about his time at the cryonics facility),
Johnson, Michael
(Shands Hospital clinical social worker and friend to John-Henry),
Johnson, Richard
(director of the Sports Museum in Boston and coauthor of two coffee-table books on Williams),
Johnston, Ted
(Ted’s friend and the contractor for his first and second houses in Citrus Hills),
Jones, Tanya
(former Alcor chief operating officer),
Joost, Eddie
(Sox utility infielder, 1955),
Joyner, Robert
(caretaker of the Yawkey estate in South Carolina)

Kaiser, Joyce
(niece of Minnie Williams, Sam Williams’s second wife),
Kallas, Jim
(Princeton, Minnesota, fishing and hunting buddy of Ted),
Kasko, Eddie
(former major-league player, Red Sox manager, scouting director, and friend of Ted),
Katz, Bob
(runs My Grandma’s of New England, a coffee cake company; would send cakes to Ted; did a brief business deal with him),
Kaufman, Rob
(elder son of Louise Kaufman),
Kaufman, Ruth Banash
(a Jimmy Fund volunteer who knew Ted),
Kell, George
(beat Ted to win the Triple Crown in ’49; played on Red Sox in 1952–53 and part of ’54),
Kelly, Jack
(friend of Don Fitzpatrick; batboy; spent time in Sox clubhouse),
Keltner, Autumn Durst
(daughter of late Cedric Durst, Ted’s teammate and mentor on the San Diego Padres),
Kemmerer, Russ
(pitcher for Red Sox in 1954, ’55, and part of ’57),
Kennedy, Bob
(major leaguer and World War II pal of Ted),
Keough, Marty
(Red Sox outfielder from 1956 to 1960),
Kerensky, Richard
(Ted’s Florida cardiologist, who attested to Claudia being present on the day the pact was signed),
King, Lori
(Ted dialysis nurse),
Kingsley, John
(saw Ted take batting practice at Harvard in the 1950s),
Klaus, Billy
(Red Sox infielder from 1955 to 1958),
Klein, Carol
(niece of Minnie Williams, Sam Williams’s second wife),
Knowles, Darold
(Senators pitcher from 1967 to ’71),
Korba,
Harry
(friend of Ted from 1954 to 2002),
Kunzman, Alan
(former Riverside, California, coroner’s investigator who wrote a book critical of Alcor),
Kurth, Judi
(daughter of Joe Dulak, deceased Minnesota and World War II friend of Ted; consulted with John-Henry on his businesses),
Kurtz, Sheldon
(University of Iowa College of Law professor and expert on the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act)

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