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. He never lost his temper or spun off in a rage. Watching her watch a dragon movie makes it all make sense.Sitting on her couch, she cries when the dragon saves the little boy. They tried to understand his rages, and why they'd even been born. Even in her moment of triumph, something worried her, a neurotic fear. A young John-Henry poses with his father during Red Sox spring training. I love you. By 1979, when they were 10 and 7, he practically gushed in his upright, loopy handwriting. Williams is such a part of baseball and Boston even today. Trouble is, nobody knew how to start to repair something so completely broken. Days passed without her manic exercise routine, which she used to exhaust herself into a kind of peace. Abel would write up a contract on a napkin or a piece of scratch paper, which is what Ted liked, and negotiate a settlement: Ted agreed to take the pills every day, and John-Henry agreed to let him shower only four times a week. Finally he got his first fish. Standing around the kitchen, she and Eric told the story of what happened when she opened her letter. "No," Dolores Williams says. The stories and biographies quote staff members and associates who say Ted continued to want his remains scattered in the Atlantic, and in the end, Bradlee seemed to conclude that Ted did not want to be frozen. Windalco, +1 more Claudia Williams Building the nation's health infrastructure Oakland, CA. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline? Driving back from visiting Ted's compound in Canada, Dolores and John-Henry stopped in Maine to spend the night in sleeping bags at a rest stop. She entered a psych ward, which he paid for, and got an abortion, which he paid for, and when her scars taunted him -- physical proof that he'd become his mother -- he paid for plastic surgery too. That's the hope and the promise of whatever life remains in John-Henry's sperm. She makes them earn their story. "He'd given up on it. The live-in caretaker is crying. Henry Leutwyler for ESPN MagazineCLAUDIA LOVES DRAGONS. she cries.He presses hard on the brakes, and she gets out. He beamed, and the next day, everything about him seemed different, and not just because he wore Red Sox gear head to toe. And he goes, yeah, I know it. John-Henry died on a Saturday, and as he requested, his body was suspended at Alcor too, in the same tank as his dad. Lives in East Palo Alto, California. Her dream was to attend Middlebury College in Vermont. he yelled. Emeryville, CA. Log In. 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. Everybody's against me. His presence seemed real. Oct 12. "Congratulations," it began.CLAUDIA GRINNED WHEN I walked back into her house the day after she was accepted to Duke. Well, goddamit, why are you mad, why are you upset. TONY TOMSIC/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGE, THIS STORY BEGAN two years ago, when I reached out to Claudia about meeting at her home in Hernando. When he got leukemia a year after Ted died, she donated bone marrow, and when he needed another transplant and her blood count was too low, she begged the doctors to try anyway. "I mean, he had [me] at 53 years old," Claudia says, her voice wavering. For a season, at 37 years old, she competed against teenagers. A tire swing already hangs from a thick branch of an oak tree, plenty of room to run and play in the shade. Claudia saw him first, and she and John-Henry dragged their father over. In his logs, John-Henry and Claudia began to make appearances. "I think I'm just looking for him to still be proud of me," she says. Something happened to Ted Williams' face when he laughed; most pictures show him stern, in concentration, but when he giggled, his jowls would hang and his eyes would squint and he looked, for just a moment, nothing like one of the most famous men in America. A grilse. "It was a bright, sunny day, and I was there. "You have heavy burdens you're still carrying," he said. The WNET Groups award-winning productions include signature PBS series Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, PBS NewsHour Weekend and Amanpour and Company and trusted local news programs MetroFocus and NJ Spotlight News with Briana Vannozzi. he asks.She starts slapping his arm."Stop! "JESUS CHRIST!" Ted's health declined, more every day. Claudia brings over 20 years' experience catalyzing and scaling improvements in healthcare to her role as the chief executive officer of Manifest MedEx. In this stubbornness, she found the emotional stability sought but never discovered by her brother, who died 11 years ago from leukemia. The industry is normally worth $132 million a year. If you also want to join us as we dig deeper, here are some resources to get you started, What the new immigration system means for care homes, For those who havent had enough of this terrifying tale, Thousands of trans people are turning to crowdfunding websites to help pay for treatment. The reconsidered acceptance letter made her weep with rage because she knew what had happened. They tried to understand his rages, and why they'd even been born. She got it as a gift. A toxic train derailment in Ohio has become a political football. Ted Williams gave his three children the name he'd made famous, and when he died, their battle turned a solemn passing into a late-night punch line. When you laugh -- "She interrupts him. Everything about me says no. John-Henry bought a dialysis machine so Ted could get the treatment at night. One afternoon, she gets a frantic phone call and rushes to her mom's bedside less than a mile away. The only thing left is a frayed set of Ted's beloved Encyclopedia Britannica, which he bought after retiring, spending hours scouring them for the knowledge he felt ashamed not to have. As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. 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. First they were known as the little green men, an anonymous private Russian force appearing first in Crimea, then Syria, then in central Africa. He'd be waiting for me right here. "Abel would write up a contract on a napkin or a piece of scratch paper, which is what Ted liked, and negotiate a settlement: Ted agreed to take the pills every day, and John-Henry agreed to let him shower only four times a week. In the definitive biography of Ted Williams, by Ben Bradlee Jr., John-Henry is shown as a terrible businessman and a cheat, someone who lied so often -- inviting his dad to a college graduation where he didn't actually graduate, claiming to make his college baseball team when he never tried out -- that he lied about Ted's wanting to be frozen too. She's a young woman living among retirees with only a few friends. It's empty now, under renovation, sitting low and wide on a hill, beneath the grove of live oak trees. He pushed and explained his idea, working cryonics into those dinner-table evenings. Claudia, then 30 and an elite athlete, paced the halls like a wild animal. 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. His flies are safe too, and she can see his hands in the bend of the knots. Every year, she plants a tree in their memory, and leaving her dad's house one day, she sees that one of John-Henry's trees is dying. ", Love had control over him. He saved a wild duck he found, and countless other birds. "Her spirit lightens when she does his voice, everything lit from the inside. "Grief is weird," Claudia says, riding at night through the dark neighborhoods around their house. Hello. Her mom stabilizes, and Claudia heads home. "Just please listen to me. Around 2005, she started playing tennis with some older ladies in the neighborhood. "SHE AND ERIC fell in love during the horrible siege after they froze her father, who died of cardiac arrest almost two years after signing the note. The most important thing he read was the origin text of cryonics, a book by science fiction writer and professor Robert Ettinger titled The Prospect of Immortality. But there were signs of what was to come. San Diego neighbors would watch Ted and his younger brother Danny, 8 and 6, sitting alone on the front porch late into the night. In this stubbornness, she found the emotional stability sought but never discovered by her brother, who died 11 years ago from leukemia. Rather than tell her father, she slit her arm from the wrist to the elbow. YOU WANNA 'NOTHER ONE?". PBS station members can view many series, documentaries and specials via PBS Passport. Ted wrote about the water temperature (70-72 degrees), his friends who came up to fish, and details of the trout and arctic char he caught while casting for salmon. Training for triathlons after she came home from Europe, every weekend Claudia would ride her bike here from Tampa. Around the long kitchen table, John-Henry began to make his case. Ted wrote about the water temperature (70-72 degrees), his friends who came up to fish, and details of the trout and arctic char he caught while casting for salmon. At the funeral for Williams' longtime girlfriend, Louise Kaufman, Claudia recognized her half-sister, Bobby-Jo, whom she'd never met, simply by seeing a familiar wave of fear register on Bobby-Jo's face at the sound of Ted's voice: He boomed in the next room, sucking up all the oxygen, and two women, born 23 years apart, flinched. It was everything against his grain to succumb to this outside influence of children. May Williams never saw her son play a major league game, even though she lived through his entire career. That night, after Eric cooks steaks and Emma bakes sugar cookies, everyone piles onto the sofa for movie night. This is her FATHER! What's the matter with him? Toggle navigation. He lived most of the next 41 years as a kind of island. 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. When she is up, laughing with a goofy smile and light in her eyes, you cannot get close enough to her, and when she is down, spiraling into a darkness only she can see, you cannot get far enough away. Prepare thyself, sir. 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. You could see it just gnaw. And once he realized 'I can be good at this, and these kids want to learn from me,' we had run out of time.". Claudia Williams is a reporter and producer for ABC News Digital. They sought out anything that might buy him more time -- no matter how experimental, unorthodox or just plain weird. "Love had control over him. By Jennifer Deutschmann / July 31, 2021 12:04 pm EST. About Major League Baseball John-Henry Williams, a 6-foot-5 ringer for his handsome father, had long lived in the zeitgeist as a bumbling son who took and took without ever standing on his own. Once, when Abel was flying to San Diego to meet with the Upper Deck baseball card company, Ted pulled him aside. They drove to a nearby park, where she could run until she felt tired enough to stop thinking.That was 13 years ago, and while people still remember something about Ted's head being frozen, the daily onslaught is over. "Are you still smoking?" Claudia Williams Journalist Claudia Williams is a journalist for The Advocate covering general news and events. It was two years before her best friend knew. 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. Claudia, then 30 and an elite athlete, paced the halls like a wild animal. "F--- you.". The kitchen brings back so many memories. She threw plates and knives. "You have to take these pills. Every culture has deeply symbolic rituals for burying and mourning the dead. Nearby, pocketknives rust at their hinges. Claudia has spent considerable time looking for documents that would prove she was in the hospital for the signing of the informal contract. "Suddenly quiet and hiding now, she says, "I don't wanna think about it," as one more piece of her father slips away.SHE IS HIDING from loss, and from regret, hiding from her family's past, which is always operating the strings of her daily life. When the boat docked back at Pier 39, they walked down the boards looking for dinner. The idea is strange, yet mechanically quite simple: She'd need a surrogate mother and a name. Bobby-Jo came into the world first, in the middle of his career. Claudia has spent considerable time looking for documents that would prove she was in the hospital for the signing of the informal contract. "We might?" Nick Trotta is executive producer for Major League Baseball. "My heart hurt," she says.That night, after Eric cooks steaks and Emma bakes sugar cookies, everyone piles onto the sofa for movie night. "Doc, if you can give me any extra time with these guys, let's do it," he said. When Claudia went through a breakup, instead of keeping her pain a secret like she'd done as a teenager, she explained how to comfort her. 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. "What's incredible as an observer was to watch him in love with his kids," says Abel, now 52. She especially loves movies about dragons. She didn't want to waste another moment. Evolving? Claudia Williams is a journalist for The Advocate covering general news and events. "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. 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." 717.695.1798 info@claudia-williams.com Claudia Williams is the creator of: info@claudia . First, just simple mentions, when they were little: "Claudia, John Henry took canoe ride to Gray Rapids." Doctors diagnosed manic depression, and she moved from booze to pills, cheating on her husband with the neighbor and giving herself another abortion with drugs and alcohol. "You have to have a child," he told her.The idea is strange, yet mechanically quite simple: She'd need a surrogate mother and a name. His comments reveal a truth about relations with strategically important countries that dont respect human rights. Ukraine's New Year's Eve missile attack on a Russian target in the Donetsk region has led to wildly differingaccountsfrom both sides. Her brother lobbed one wild, but Claudia kicked her leg and delivered a strike. Finally she said yes. Her spirit lightens when she does his voice, everything lit from the inside. How an embroidery charity beloved by its members tore itself apart at the seams. The dining table used to be there, by the window. The first visit lasted a week in the fall of 2014, and we made paella and she told funny stories about her dad -- he'd call the public phone in European hostels and boom at unsuspecting travelers, "Is CLAUDIA WILLIAMS there? "I can't do a f---ing thing! 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. "It wasn't until I cared for my elderly father as his health declined," she wrote on her application, "that I discovered my true calling. The house felt different than before, desolation replaced by hope. About The WNET Group Claudia held a training on "Communication Success" for our corporate team at Duck Donuts. 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.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. ""Who knows what the future will bring?" MARVIN KONER/GLOBE PHOTOS/ZUMA PRESSSHE HAS LOST her father to old age and her brother to leukemia. Then the Williams kicked in: She moved up the USTA ratings, 3.5 to 4.0, then, she says, she became the best 4.0 in Citrus County, then the top-ranked 4.0 player in the state. I live right behind you. Find Claudia Williams's email address, contact information, LinkedIn, Twitter, other social media and more. John-Henry rubbed Vaseline on her shoulders and told her not to cry.A young John-Henry poses with his father during Red Sox spring training. But is it enough? He'd been retired for eight years. Watching her watch a dragon movie makes it all make sense. Road toll rises to 31 following fatality at Greens Beach 7 months ago | By Claudia Williams | The Advocate (Tasmania) After nearly three years, China has abandoned key parts of its flagship zero-covid policy.