IndyCar drivers Ryan Hunter-Reay (28), from left, Scott Dixon (9) and Simon Pagenaud (77) perform the ALS ice bucket challenge on CEO of Hulman & Co. Mark Miles in the winner's circle after the Grand Prix of Sonoma at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., on Sunday, August 24, 2014. Dixon placed first, Hunter-Reay placed second and Pagenaud placed third. (Photo by Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group/MCT/Sipa USA)
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A former college baseball player whose battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease helped inspire the ice bucket challenge has died. Pete Frates was 34. Frates’ family says he died Monday. The ice bucket challenge has raised more than $200 million worldwide for research into ALS, which is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Participants would challenge others to share videos of themselves dumping a bucket of icy water over their own heads to raise awareness. The fundraiser began in 2014 when pro golfer Chris Kennedy challenged his wife’s cousin Jeanette Senerchia, whose husband has ALS.
