Resurrected Ted Williams to Throw First Pitch at World Series Opener

October 22, 2028 — Baseball legend Ted Williams, freshly resurrected from biostasis, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch tonight at the opening game of the 2028 World Series.

Tonight’s contest between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Native Americans will begin at 8:05 ET at some corporate-owned field whose name no one can keep up with because the facility has been bought and sold so many times.

Williams, whose head and body were cryogenically preserved in 2003 shortly after his death, was reanimated last year and has been undergoing physical and psychological therapy since that time.  Sources tell FU that Williams, who was controversial during his career because of his abrasive personality, has mellowed in his biostasis years and has been easy to work with.

He will walk onto the field at tonight’s game immediately after a special video tribute.

The left fielder played 19 seasons with the Boston Red Sox, interrupting his career twice to serve as a Marine Corps pilot. He retired iin 1960. He is widely considered to be one of baseball’s greatest hitters who don’t have an asterisk next to their name in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Williams following his resurrection surgery

After his death in July 2002, his body was taken to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz. There, Williams’ corpse was decapitated in a procedure called neuroseparation, and his head and body were stored separately in liquid nitrogen, awaiting the day when medical science would have both a cure for the cardiac problems that beset him and the ability to revive his dead mind and body.  Alcor perfected the resurrection process in 2023.

Williams’ restoration was delayed, however, when family members rekindled a legal battle over the former slugger’s true wishes about the fate of his body.  Once a federal appeals court freed Alcor to bring him back to life,  Williams said he was happy to return to existence.  He has agreed to serve as a live, permanent exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y.