“The daughter of baseball great Ted Williams says she is fighting with her half-brother to keep her father’s body from being frozen in a cryonics lab.

“Bobby-Jo Ferrell, Williams’ daughter with his first wife, said she plans to ‘rescue’ her father’s body from an Arizona cryonics company,” the AP reports.

Ferrell said over the weekend that someone at Hooper’s Funeral Home in Inverness, Fla., told her that Williams’ body had been moved on Friday to Scottsdale, Ariz.. She would not identify the person.

Ferrell, Williams’ daughter with his first wife, said her half brother, John Henry William’s, had her father’s body moved from the funeral home to Alcor Life Extension Foundation to freeze and preserve it.

‘I will rescue my father’s body,’ she told The Associated Press late Saturday night. ‘Me and my attorney are working on that.’

Ferrell told the Sunday Boston Globe that she planned to seek a restraining order on Monday to prevent her father’s body from being preserved at Alcor. She did not return a call seeking comment Sunday.

Um. What did Teddy want? Anybody bothering to check for any documents he may have left behind? Because if ever there was a man capable of making his own decisions, it was Williams. I mean, here’s one guy who lived a full, fantastic, iconoclastic life. So if he wants to spend eternity flashfrozen like a fishstick, more power to ’em, I say.

[update: The Boston Herald is reporting that Williams’ body may already be frozen.]