Sister of Sox pitcher plans ALS walk
February 15, 2007

Tracy (Timlin) Schach, sister of Red Sox relief pitcher Mike Timlin, plans to begin a cross-country walk on March 1 to raise awareness about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and to benefit the Wakefield-based Angel Fund.

The nonprofit fund supports research into ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at the Cecil B. Day Neuromuscular Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital.

The late Sharon Timlin, mother of Schach and Timlin, was diagnosed with ALS in May 2001. She died less than a year later at the age of 60.

The Angel Fund is working with Schach to line up sponsors for "Tracy's Austin-to-Boston ALS Awareness Walk," an approximately 2,000-mile, 100-day journey from Texas to Boston.

Schach is to arrive in Boston just before the start of the fourth annual Sharon Timlin Memorial 5-kilometer Race to Cure ALS, to be held June 16 in Hopkinton.

For more information on Schach's walk or how to support it, call Ann Hadley at 781-245-7070.
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