At one point, the going slow, the surgeon remarked that he wished he had an electric knife. Finally, he switched to a bone saw to finish the job, and at 9:17 p.m., Mountain time, the head of the greatest hitter who ever lived had been sliced off.
From “The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams,” by Ben Bradlee Jr., to be published Tuesday, December 3, by Little, Brown and Co. (via mcdermott451)