Basketball official Fred Angerman Jr. listens during a pregame captains meeting during a Wrangell homecoming game between the Wolves and the Petersburg Vikings in 2008.
There are two sounds I can never seem to forget.
One is the snow shovel scraping along the concrete basketball court I cleared in the Petersburg winters of my youth, basketball in hand.
The second is the chain-link basketball net clanging on a Wrangell playground.
One is the reason for the other.
My future teammates and friends loved the game and knew what awaited us in the high school gyms across Southeast Alaska.
And in Wrangell, one of the best awaited: Fred Angerman Jr.
As a fifth grader, my lessons in basketball began as Vikings great Dave Ohmer took me under his wing and annihilated me o...
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