2016 Directors’ Awards winners announced

ANCHORAGE – Two athletes on meteoric career trajectories and two teams on remarkable runs of excellence bookend a 2016 Directors’ Awards Class that also includes a hockey star-turned leader of youth and a basketball player who overcame tremendous...

Red Boucher

If there’s one man responsible for making baseball in Alaska what it is today, it’s H.A. “Red” Boucher. Boucher founded the Alaska Goldpanners of Fairbanks in 1960 under the sponsorship of the sporting goods store he owned in Fairbanks. The team, then known as the Pan...