Pete Frates, Red Sox Relaunch Ice Bucket Challenge At Fenway

The Ice Bucket Challenge, last summer’s viral hit that raised more than $150 million for the ALS Association is making a comeback.

All 30 teams will participate before the season ends.

The league announced Thursday that it will kick things off with a $100,000 donation.

The Red Sox joined Pete Frates and Pat Quinn, co-founders of the challenge, in relaunching the successful fundraising campaign Friday at Fenway Park.

ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.

Frates, who played baseball at Boston College, was honored at Fenway on Opening Day this year when the team signed him to a symbolic contract.

That’s just one of the reasons, Ted hopes you’ll give to the organization, through this month’s Ice Bucket Challenge.

“Thank you to Major League Baseball and to everyone who is making it possible to transform a moment into a movement, establishing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge as an annual event to find treatments and cure for ALS”.

The Muscular Dystrophy Association is the world’s leading nonprofit health agency dedicated to saving and improving the lives of people with muscle disease, including muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neuromuscular diseases.

“As the sport of Lou Gehrig, Baseball’s longstanding participation in the fight against ALS dates back to 1939”, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.

The Ice Bucket Challenge started in August 2014 and raised millions of dollars for the cause.

Most of that money goes back to research, the patients, and their families.