Former Boston College baseball player died Dec. 9; annual “Plunge for Pete” will be family’s last
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The procession follows the casket of Pete Frates, draped in a flag bearing his name, during a funeral mass at St. Ignatius of Loyola Parish church at Boston College in Boston, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. Frates, a former college baseball player whose determined battle with Lou Gehrig's disease helped inspire the ALS ice bucket challenge that has raised more than $200 million worldwide.
The event, in its eighth year, raised money for the Pete Frates #3 Fund, which helped pay for Frates’ medical bills.The former Boston College baseball player, who lived in Beverly, a suburb north of Boston, died Dec. 9 after a seven-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He would have turned 35 on Saturday.
The family has accumulated roughly $500,000 in debt for their son’s medical care, John Frates said, and the final fundraiser will hopefully help close the gap. Organizers say nearly 300 people have signed up to take the actual plunge. That exceeds the peak of 250 participants the event saw in 2014, the year the ice bucket challenge went viral and raised more than $200 million for ALS research worldwide, they say.The ice bucket challenge involved pouring a bucket of ice water over one’s head and posting a video of it on social media, and then challenging others to do the same or make a donation to charity. Most people did both.
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