Cryogenic Freeze

e-mail from Matthew Callahan on the Ted Williams Situation
July 11, 2002

Matt Callahan

-----Original Message-----
From: Callahan, Matthew T
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:34 AM
To: Scully, Daniel M
Subject: RE:

You should smuggle ice cubes in, and throw them on the field and say "Ted would have wanted it this way"

-----Original Message-----
From: Scully, Daniel M
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:21 AM To: Goranson, Scott; Kruse, Timothy E; Byrnes, James H; David Shepherd, Callahan, Matthew T; Matt Stuart
Subject:

I will never eat a hot dog that I drop on the floor at Fenway again...

from the Boston Herald's Inside Track
Superfan now rests at Fenway
by Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Wednesday, July 10, 2002

Everyone wants to go into extra innings these days. But some just want their spirit to live on at Fenway Park. Take the late Red Sox superfan Mary Ennis, who died in 1997 at 103 years old. The ol' gal from Arlington hardly ever missed a home game and for her Fenway fan-aticism, the team named her Fan of the Year in the 1980s. So we're told although it took five years for the family to collect auntie's ashes from the funeral home, her grandnephews made a snap decision on Aunt Mary's eternal resting place: Let's take her out to the ballgame! Although the boys could forget about buying her some peanuts and Cracker Jack, there was still the nagging question about how to get the urn through the security gates, said Someone Who Knows. One of the boys - a well-known attorney from Wellesley who wants to remain nameless - suggested they divvy her up in Baggies and divide the sandwich bags between the rels with tickets to last Friday's game. Which, coincidentally kicked off with a tribute to Aunt Mary's beloved Ted Williams, who died earlier that day. ``So six of them took the train in from Wellesley and proceeded to spread out all over the park - the first base line, the left field wall - and casually dumped the ashes onto the field while everyone was distracted by the tribute,'' said our spy. ``They even had photos of where she and her brother sat through the years and spread a little of her out in the stands, too.'' What? Like that's the most god-awful eternal resting place idea you've heard this week? OK, we will concede being swept up in the stands with the peanut shells, trampled K cards and rank beer cups seems sad, but we're talking a Fan of the Year here. . . The Red Sox yesterday had no comment on the Mary matter. But a pal on Yawkey Way, who we thought would be skeeved by the story, said: ``It happens all the time.'' ``People come in for tours and they drop ashes on the field,'' he said. ``But it's mostly on the field.''
File under: Field of Ashes?