The Sports Museum at TD Garden held a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday to officially open a new exhibit honoring Pete Frates, co-founder of the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS. The exhibit chronicles Frates’ life from his high school athletic career at St. John’s Prep, to his tenure as captain of the Boston College baseball team, to his ALS diagnosis that led to a worldwide fundraising effort.

The exhibit features Frates’ iconic ice buckets, his Boston College baseball jersey, bat and batting helmet, his 2017 NCAA Inspiration Award, photographs, and other cherished memories.

“Pete deserves this wonderful honor. His athletic career was wonderful as I said, but it’s what he did post career,” said John Frates, Pete’s father.

Frates’ time on the field was cut short when he was diagnosed with

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