The ice bucket challenge for ALS awareness has gone viral worldwide, but where did this great movement start? Where did the ice bucket challenge originate from? It only takes one person to start something big, who was that one person? His name was Pete Frates, a college baseball player for Boston college who was a diehard baseball fan and he adored the Boston Red Sox. A little while after Frates realized something was physically wrong with his body and later diagnosed with the ALS disease. So what did Frates do? He attacked the disease with all his heart and soul. The harder he fought, the disease began to take his physical capabilities more and more. Now confining him in a wheelchair he can barely talk, only being able to talk via internet. So one day a few of his friends introduced him to the ice bucket charity challenge where individuals grab a bucket of ice and toss it over their heads for others to donate to some type of charity. Pete Frates wanted to do it himself but was incapable of doing so because of his crippling disease so he started to ask many individuals across the city of Boston to do it for his charity for ALS Awareness. It started to spread like wildflower and many athletes in Boston started to do the ice bucket challenge for Frates charity.
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On August 2014 Frates took the field at Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park to finally do what he asked so many others to do. It was to do the ice bucket challenge himself for the first time, after so many others have done it for him. Frates knows the challenge still goes on, but thanks to him now many others can take this challenge with him together and fight the battle against ALS.
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