"ALS ice bucket" challenge inspiration Pete Frates succumbs to disease
Pete Frates, the college baseball player whose struggle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) inspired the viral ALS ice bucket challenge in 2014 and raised 220 million USD for ALS charities, has passed away at the age of 34. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease is a motor neuron disease with no known cure.
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Baseball Legend Mary Pratt dies at age 101
Baseball Legend, Mary Pratt, who played for the Rockford Peaches and Kenosha Comets in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, has died. Pratt pitched in the women’s league from 1943-47. She was believed to be the last surviving member of the original 1943 Peaches. The league said in a tweet that Pratt’s “stories, her energy will be missed for a long time.”
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White Sox radio icon Ed Farmer dead at 70
Ed Farmer, the 70-year-old radio broadcaster for the Chicago White Sox, whose three-decade-long career included casting the Sox's legendary World Series championship win in 2005, has passed away after experiencing complications due to an ailment. Farmer joined the Sox broadcast team in 1992, becoming their full-time analyst from 1992 onwards.
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All major US sports seasons have been canceled due to coronavirus
The professional American football league XFL was the latest to announce the cancellation of its regular season amid the COVID-19 pandemic, joining all major US sports leagues such as the NCAA, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, the National Basketball Association, and Major League Soccer in abandoning their current seasons.
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Star pitcher Mike Fiers says he's been getting death threats
Mike Fiers, the star pitcher for the Oakland Athletics and former pitcher for the Houston Astros, has revealed that he has been receiving death threats from angry fans after he made the Astro's illegal sign-stealing scheme public in 2017. Following the scandal, Fiers left the team and joined the Detroit Tigers before being traded to the Athletics.
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