Five years ago, the fight to find a cure for ALS reached new heights through the Ice Bucket Challenge and continues today. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has long been associated with baseball since New York Yankees' Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig was diagnosed in 1939. The disease has hit home at Boston College too often and the BC baseball team's mission to combat the disease began with the diagnosis of former captain Pete Frates ('07), who was diagnosed in 2012 at the age of 27.
The Ice Bucket Challenge was started in the summer of 2014 and began to go viral through the effort of its participants to shine a light on various chartities.