Not Wanting to Let Go of This Life

Ted Williams—often called the greatest hitter in Major League Baseball history—has spent the years since 2002 not in a hall of fame or resting beneath a headstone, but inside an unassuming warehouse near the airport in Scottsdale, Arizona. That’s where he was taken shortly after what most of us would call his death—but what the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, his caretakers, prefer to describe as the “conclusion of his first life cycle.”

Though Alcor won’t publicly confirm it, Williams’ daughter has. When he died at age…