In March 2012, Pete Frates, a salesman and former college baseball player, got some bad news from his neurologist. He decided to approach the problem more positively than a man in his position would be expected to do.
In July 2014, he was widely credited with pioneering what social media phenomenon?
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Pete Frates was diagnosed with the degenerative disease ALS in 2012. He is usually given credit for launching the 'ice bucket challenge' for ALS, though it's not clear if it originated with him.
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