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, L
ee (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)
Larson, Rosalie (Ted’s first cousin; daughter of Paul Venzor, May’s brother), Lasorda, Tommy (longtime Dodgers manager and friend of Ted), La Spada, Carmella (founder, No Greater Love, charity of which Ted was president), Lawrimore, Wallace Hampton (son of Hampton Lawrimore, Tom Yawkey’s chief mechanic in residence at South Island from about 1929 to 1951), Layon, Joseph (Florida doctor who treated Ted at Shands Hospital), Lazor, Johnny (played for Red Sox from 1943 to 1946), Leahey, Chick (former Bates College baseball coach who had dealings with John-Henry), Lederman, Mort (worked security at Jimmy Fund and dealt with Ted in the 1950s), Lee, Bill (eccentric Red Sox pitcher in the 1970s who knew Ted from spring training), Lee, Sammy (television and radio fishing personality; knew and hosted Ted on his programs), LeFebvre, Bill “Lefty” (Red Sox pitcher in 1938–39), Lemler, Jerry (former Alcor CEO), Lenhardt, Don (played for Red Sox in 1952 and 1954), Lepcio, Ted (Red Sox infielder from 1952 to 1959), Levinson, Sandy (friend of Daisy Bisz, lawyer to Ted), Lewis, Lana (had polio as a child; Ted helped her), Liebster, Jerry (John-Henry’s baseball agent), Lind, Carl (ran Sears staff advisory program with Ted), Lindia, Dorothy (widow of longtime Ted pal Joe Lindia, a Cranston, Rhode Island, restaurateur), Lindia, Frank (Joe and Dorothy Lindia’s son), Linsky, Sam (wrote essay entitled “Ted Williams and Excellence” in his application to Harvard and was admitted), Lobel, Bob (Boston sportscaster), Lodigiani, Dario (former Pacific Coast League and American League player; opponent of Ted’s), Long, Bob (former Vermont Academy headmaster), Longo, Al (Boston businessman with an office at Somerset Hotel while Ted was there), Lorge, Barry (former Washington Post sportswriter and San Diego Union sports editor), Lovely, Anita (John-Henry’s onetime fiancée and longtime confidante), Lucchino, Larry (Red Sox CEO), Lucero, Gino (cousin of Ted’s on the Hernandez side of the family), Lucier, Lou (pitcher for the Red Sox in 1943–44), Lupien, Tony (played for the Sox in 1940, ’42, and ’43), Luscomb, Brian (nephew and godson of Rod Luscomb, Ted’s playground mentor), Lynn, Fred (Red Sox outfielder from ’75 to ’80; met Ted at spring training), Lyons, Kirk (worked with Ted trying to get Shoeless Joe Jackson into the Hall of Fame)
MacIntyre, Michelle Orlando (John-Henry’s first girlfriend), Magill, Charles (veterinarian to Ted’s dog Slugger for six years), Mahoney, Jim (Red Sox infielder, 1959), Mallett, Jerry (played briefly for 1959 Red Sox), Maloney, Bud (younger schoolmate of Ted at Hoover High; San Diego Union sportswriter), Maloof, Ferris (scoreboard operator at Fenway from 1949 to the late ’50s), Malzone, Frank (played third base for the Red Sox from 1955 to 1965), Marinari, Don (a friend of Ted from the 1980s on), Martin, Lisa (John-Henry’s widow), Masterson, Walt (pitcher with Red Sox from 1949 to 1952), Maxwell, Charlie (played outfield in parts of 1950, ’51, ’52, and ’54 for the Red Sox), Mays, Willie (Ted rooted for the all-time great in his Hall of Fame induction speech), Maznicki, Frank (Ted was his flight instructor at Pensacola; played baseball and football at Boston College and football for the Chicago Bears), McCall, John “Windy” (pitched sparingly for the Red Sox from 1948 to 1949), McCarthy, Dave (former New Hampshire state police officer and now director of the Ted Williams museum), McCauley, Andy (manager of Schaumburg Flyers when John-Henry played for the team), McDonald, Jim (pitched nine games for the 1950 Red Sox), McDonough, Will (Boston Globe columnist), McDougal, Elaine (daughter of Hampton Lawrimore, Yawkey’s chief mechanic), McKinnis, Jerry (host of The Fishin’ Hole, program on ESPN; went to Russia on a fishing trip with Ted), McWalter, Robert (Ted’s longtime lawyer), Meehan, Bobby (worked for Tim McAuliffe, who provided Red Sox uniforms for years), Mele, Sam (played two stints for Red Sox from 1947 to 1949 and from 1954 to 1955), Mercer, Bobby (rector at Miramichi church from 1974 to 1981), Minarcin, Rudy (pitched a handful of games for the Red Sox in 1956 and ’57), Miranti, Tricia (disabled Florida girl whom Ted took under his wing), Miranti, Vicki (mother of Tricia Miranti), Mitchell, Ramona (friend of Doris Soule), Mitrovich, George (president of the City Club of San Diego; interviewed about the Red Sox beat writer Ed Rumill), Moford, Herb (pitched four games for the 1959 Red Sox), Monahan, Bob (former Globe reporter who covered college sports for the paper for forty years; brother of Leo Monahan), Monahan, Leo (longtime Record reporter who worked closely with Dave Egan), Monbouquette, Bill (pitched for Red Sox from ’58 to ’65), Montgomery, Bob (former Red Sox catcher and broadcaster), Mooney, Joe (longtime Red Sox groundskeeper; groundskeeper at RFK Stadium in Washington when Ted managed there), Moore, Gene (friend and business partner of Ted), Moore, Jimmy, Jr. (lawyer in Georgetown an
d Myrtle Beach, South Carolina), More, Nelva (Ted’s fiancée until they broke off their engagement in 1957), Morgan, Chris (young promoter from Manchester, New Hampshire, who participated in a panel discussion with Ted, George W. Bush, and former Red Sox pitcher Dennis Eckersley in January of 2000, prior to the annual Granite State Baseball Dinner in which Ted endorsed Bush), Morgan, Dot (wife of Joe Morgan), Morgan, Joe (former Sox manager and Ted pal), Morton, Guy (played one game for 1954 Red Sox), Moscato, Arthur (Sox ticket manager; started in the ’40s, took requests for Ted), Moss, Les (caught for the Red Sox in the last part of 1951), Mueller, Gordie (pitched in eight games for the Sox in 1950), Muggeo, Louis (lawyer for Lane Forman in memorabilia case against John-Henry), Mulcahy, Joe (Warwick, Rhode Island, Little Leaguer who was hospitalized on 8/30/58 after being beaned while batting; Ted sent him a birthday cake and an autographed ball), Muller, Virginia (sister of Joe Urezzio, friend of Ted’s uncle John Smith; aunt of Joanne Fredo, above), Munday, Bill (former Ted caretaker), Munday, Kay (Bill’s wife; also a Ted caretaker), Murphy, John (younger son of former Yankees and Red Sox relief pitcher Johnny Murphy, who helped out around the clubhouse in the 1950s), Murphy, Sean (accountant for John-Henry and Ted), Murphy, Tom (older son of former Sox and Yankees pitcher Johnny Murphy)
Nash, Jerry (Sam Tamposi’s partner in Citrus Hills; founding director of the Ted museum), Nathan, Alan (expert on the physics of baseball; interviewed about Ted heating his bats), Nathan, David (Jimmy Fund president emeritus; hosted Ted on ’99 All-Star Game visit to the hospital), Nayfield, Casey (veterinarian to Ted’s dog Slugger for a short time), Nee, Peter (Ted’s banker at BankBoston; Brookline neighbor of John-Henry), Nelson, Dave (played under Ted for the Senators and Rangers), Newbery, Don (radio reporter who did an in-depth interview with Dolores Williams in 1969, which he released only after Ted died), Newman, Roberta (teaches baseball history at NYU; specializes in baseball advertising), Nicoll, Don (first sick boy Ted visited, at Boston’s Faulkner Hospital, in 1939), Nolan, Martin (former Boston Globe Washington bureau chief and editorial page editor), Nowlin, Bill (record executive and prolific baseball author)
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