The Greatful Dead Ted Head Tour
A side trip through all that is Boston somehow became Ted Head's Excellent Adventure.
A long time ago, we picked up a GI Joe action figure of Ted Williams, celebrating the Boston Red Sox's Hall of Famer's service to our country as an Army fighter pilot. In cleaning out our stuff one day, we came upon it and decided it didn't make the cut. But before tossing it, we carefully removed Ted's head, in hopes of ... nothing really. It just seemed the thing to do.
Up on the shelf next to the San Diego Chicken bobblehead, a jar of dirt from Wrigley Field and a baseball cap from the Hanshin Tigers, Ted's Head sat in all its spendor. A trip to Boston, however, was reason enough to take him for a tour of the old place, maybe jog his frozen memory ... who knows what the inspiration was at that point.
As we circle some of the more famous sites of Beantown, Ted's Head became a thing to whip out and share in the moment. So, we have these photos. First, that's Ted (above) on the Fenway Park Tour, returning to his home. We tried to get him to sit in his red seat out in right field, but he kept falling through.
At left, that's my good pal, Pat Dunne, a Mass. native, Fenway frequent flyer and employee at the Hartford Courant, employed on this day to help Ted enjoy the mass celebration outside the park before a recent game.
And before we go to hell, we'll show you more pictures:
==Ted sits on a trash can near the statue dedicated to him outside of Fenway Park. A group of cyclists came by to pay homage to the statue, and didn't seem perturbed the fact this photo was being taken of them:
==Ted's statue actually holds Ted's head in a moment of that only Mayor Quimby could dream up:
==Ted made it over to the historic Union Oyster Bar at the North End, not far from the former Boston Garden site:
==Finally, Ted bids good night to Boston, at the Harvard University student book store, on a stack of Boston-centric books that include some other famous New England natives who aren't with us at the moment:
==Editor's note: We did have a shot of Ted on the Freedom Trail, the famous Boston walking tour that goes past many of the city's historial landmarks, but that memory chip was lost along the way and we regret we could not recover any of those shots. Also, an attempt to reunited Ted's head with the Joe DiMaggio plaque in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium was also nixed when too many Sopranos got in line in front of us and prevented a visit to the shrine.
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