BOSTON, Mass. – The Boston College baseball team joined a celebration for Pete Frates on the steps of Boston's city hall on Tuesday afternoon as Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh honored the former captain Pete Frates by declaring it Pete Frates Day.
"It is impossible to overstate the impact Pete Frates has made on our city, especially the youth of our city," Mayor Walsh said. "We teach kids about character and courage and we look for role models for them to understand. Here in Boston and certainly in Massachusetts, we don't need to point to heroes in movies or storybooks because we are lucky enough to have a real-life, home-town hero in our midst – the great Pete Frates.