A few Red Sox players holding the World Series trophy joined Gov. Charlie Baker and the Frates family for a special celebration in Beverly on Friday honoring Pete Frates.
They were on hand to watch as the Frates family held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open Pete’s Park, a playground designed to showcase everything that Frates loves including, boating and sports.
Mayor Michael Cahill called Frates an inspiration, saying, “From the day he was diagnosed, he said I am going to take this and make something great of this, and he has.”
It took crews three years to get the park just right, making it a place that anyone, regardless of their physical ability can come and play.
“A new place for us to make memories with our family,” Pete’s wife Julie Frates said. “It is so easy for us to be here with Pete and our family and just enjoy as a normal family could.”
The newly opened park sports a Boston College-themed basketball court and an American flag guardrail commemorating Frates baseball days.
Frates mother said the park could not have opened at a better time as the annual Pete Frates 5k starts on Sunday morning.
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