Pete's Legacy: 10 Years Of ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Celebrated At Fenway Park, On ESPN

BOSTON — The enormous and ongoing legacy of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge a full decade after late Beverly baseball player and St. John's Prep alumnus Pete Frates founded the fundraiser while battling the neurodegenerative disease will be the subject of an ESPN SportsCenter "SC Featured" segment on Sunday.

The "Pete's Legacy" segment is set to debut during the 8 a.m. edition of SportsCenter and will repeat during various SportsCenter editions for the rest of the day on Sunday and Monday.

"Ten years after the challenge took the world by storm," ESPN said in a release, "'Pete's Legacy' revisits the movement, shedding light on the impact it had on ALS and the lives it touched.

"The segment, reported by Chris Connelly, will feature interviews with the Frates family, friends and prominent figures who participated in the challenge, as well as updates on the progress made in ALS research since the challenge."

The segment is expected to include footage of Frates' daughter, Lucy, reading a book about her father's journey to her Glover School class in Marblehead filmed this past school year.

The Ice Bucket Challenge encouraged participants to dump a bucket of ice water over their heads and challenge others to do the same, all while raising awareness and hundreds of millions of dollars for ALS research.

Frates died in 2019 — seven years after his diagnosis. He was 33 years old.

NWN Carousel, in partnership with the Peter Frates Family Foundation, on Thursday commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS with an event at Fenway Park.

Among the celebrity guests were Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Bruins legend Ray Bourque, Boston College great and NFL quarterback Matt Ryan, New England Patriots Foundation President Josh Kraft, Pete's mother Nancy Frates, and his wife, Julie.

"It's a great opportunity to look back at what's been accomplished over the last decade and look forward to the hard work ahead for all of us who are committed to finally ridding the world of this devastating disease that has impacted our family and millions of others around the world," Nancy Frates said.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)