Pete Frates

Jerseys, baseball bats and other items that belonged to Pete Frates, the former college baseball player whose inspiring fight with Lou Gehrig’s disease helped popularize the ALS ice bucket challenge, are being auctioned. Proceeds from the online auction that runs through Tuesday will benefit the Peter Frates Family Foundation, which assists ALS patients and their families with the cost...

The legacy of Pete Frates is living on, with the Ice Bucket Challenge being credited with supporting a new potential breakthrough in the quest for a cure for ALS.

The Frates family has about half a million dollars in medical bills left to pay

Well-wishers came together Monday to celebrate the life of Pete Frates, the inspiration behind the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge who died this month at 34.

Loved ones and community members gathered Monday to celebrate the life of Pete Frates, the Boston College baseball star whose efforts to raise awareness for ALS inspired many across the nation. Those close to Frates were sharing stories at the “Celebration of Life” event at Frates’ alma mater, St. John’s Preparatory School in Danvers, Massachusetts, near his home town...

Family, friends and elected officials laid to rest Pete Frates, a man that his former teammates call a hero.

John Frates said they are celebrating Pete Frates for the magnificent human he was.

The former Boston College baseball player whose public battle with ALS inspired the popularity of the ice bucket challenge was laid to rest on Friday.

Family and friends of Pete Frates will hold funeral services for the Boston hero, who died after a 7-year battle with ALS.

From the North Shore of Massachusetts to the Boston area, mourners on Friday paid their final respects to Pete Frates, the former Boston College baseball standout captain who dedicated his last several years to raising awareness about ALS. At St. John’s Prep in Danvers, where Frates attended school, hundreds of current students at the all-boys Catholic school linked hands...

Dozens turned out at Pete Frates Park in Beverly to remember the 34-year-old, a day after Frates died following a long battle with ALS.

Tributes are pouring in for Pete Frates, the man who inspired the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Frates died Monday after fighting ALS.

People across the country continue to mourn the loss of former Boston College baseball star Pete Frates, who passed away Monday after a long battle with ALS.

Many across the nation are mourning the loss of former Boston College baseball star Pete Frates, who died Monday, but his work to raise awareness about ALS will live on. Frates, who inspired the viral Ice Bucket Challenge, died at the age of 34 after a years-long battle with the progressive disease. The disease affects nerve cells in the brain…

There were heavy hearts in Boston and around the country Monday night as we remember Pete Frates, the former Boston College baseball star and Beverly native, who died Monday.

Pete Frates, who championed the Ice Bucket Challenge while living with ALS, died at 34, his family announced Monday. He was remembered in his home town of Beverly, Massachusetts; at his alma mater, Boston College; in Boston and beyond.

Pete Frates, the Massachusetts man who inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS research, passed away Monday at the age of 34.

Pete Frates, the inspiration for the Ice Bucket Challenge to benefit ALS, has died, according to his family.

Reaction arrived swiftly on Monday after the death of the Massachusetts man who was known as the face of the Ice Bucket Challenge to benefit ALS research. Thirty-four-year-old Pete Frates, of Beverly, died after a long battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease, according to a statement from his family. Frates, a former Boston College baseball star, helped start the Ice...

Pete Frates, the inspiration for the Ice Bucket Challenge to benefit ALS, has died, according to his family. The Beverly native and former Boston College baseball star was diagnosed with the progressive disease, known both as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Lou Gherig’s disease, in 2012, when he was 27. He helped start the Ice Bucket Challenge two years later, and...