INVERNESS, Fla. (AP) — A note the late Ted Williams signed signaling his wishes to be cryogenically preserved is suspect, the lawyer for the slugger's daughter says.

Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell is questioning whether the Hall of Famer was capable of making a decision on how his body should be treated after death. Williams had been suffering from congestive heart failure.

"We're not even sure he would have been able to physically move the pen in that fashion," John Heer, an attorney for Ferrell, told Saturday's St. Petersburg Times.

"There's all these circumstances surrounding the creation of the document -- the way it was kept, the way it was later found and produced -- that all arouse our suspicions about it."

Ferrell, 54, is fighting Williams' two other children's wishes to keep his body frozen. Williams died July 5. His body was sent to Alcor Life Extension Foundation, an Arizona laboratory that does cryogenic preservation.

Williams' son, John Henry, and daughter, Claudia, have produced a handwritten note in which the aging Williams asks that his body be frozen. It was filed Thursday in Citrus County Probate Court.

The signatures of Williams, John Henry and Claudia are on the note dated Nov. 2, 2000, four years after Williams signed a will calling for his cremation.

"JHW, Claudia and Dad all agree to be put into bio-stasis after we die," reads the pact, which family attorney Bob Goldman said was written in a Gainesville hospital room before the baseball great underwent surgery. Williams had a pacemaker inserted in his chest Nov. 6, 2000.

Goldman said the note would supersede the wishes detailed in Williams' 1996 will, in which the Hall of Famer expressed his desire to be cremated.

Ferrell said the note "raises far more questions than it answers."

Heer said he plans to hire handwriting experts to examine the pact, and questioned whether Williams knew what he was signing, if he signed it.