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Williams' children now feuding over bats Posted: Sunday August 11, 2002 8:07 PMUpdated: Sunday August 11, 2002 8:09 PM
BOSTON (AP) -- Ted Williams' children are also fighting over his bats. Claudia Williams complained to a Florida judge that her brother, John Henry Williams, persuaded their father to cut her out of the family business that included ownership of 2,000 autographed bats, the Boston Herald reported Sunday. The complaint came weeks before Claudia agreed with her brother's decision to keep the remains of their father cryonically preserved in an Arizona lab. Since Ted Williams' death on July 5, Claudia and John Henry have defended their decision to move their father's body to Alcor Life Extension Foundation where it is cryonically frozen. John Henry and Claudia offered a handwritten pact from November 2000 as proof their father wanted to be frozen after death. Their sister, Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, is fighting them over the plans keep the body in deep-freeze. She wants the body cremated, as his will dictates. According to a contract, Claudia, 30, can have the bats, which are in storage in Acton. But John Henry, 33, has right of first refusal if she decides to sell the Hall of Famer's bats, which are worth $650 each. An Arizona man offered Claudia $1.2 million for the bats in March. She offered John Henry a chance to buy them, but he couldn't come up with the cash. A court injunction halted the sale, but was eventually lifted.
"I've seen my dad sign my whole life, and I didn't like it. I wanted no part of it," Claudia told a judge at a May 28 hearing in a St. Petersburg, Fla., courtroom. "And the only thing my brother couldn't touch was this irrevocable trust, which my dad set up 15 years ago for us kids to sell and have money for our kids or whatever else."
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