QUINCY, Mass. (WHDH) – The 21st annual 100 Innings of Baseball will be held this weekend at Adams Field in Quincy, where ballplayers (some of whom played all 100 innings) will support ALS research. We gathered at Diamond to help.
The ceremonial first pitch was thrown around 9 a.m. Saturday by world-renowned ALS researcher Robert Brown Sr. of the Massachusetts Chan College of Medicine, with Quincy Mayor Tom Koch also on hand.
Players are raising money for the Angel Fund for ALS research.
Event organizer and umpire Walter Bentson, who suffers from ALS, will take to the bat at midnight.
Angel Fund President Rich Kennedy plans to watch all 100 innings. Rich also has ALS and has lost three family members to the disease.
“When you get into a fight like this, you want to have as many people behind you as possible,” Kennedy told 7NEWS. “So it’s incredible to see an organization like this.”
For more information or to donate, visit https://theangelfund.org/about/.
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