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Game programs don’t make for particularly riveting reading, but over the years, the mundane material nurtures into a history lesson. Rosters, photos, statistics, player profiles and advertisements reappear in a fascinating time capsule.
It happens every spring: I’m rearranging a closet and open a dusty box containing a program from, say, a 1972 college football game. There goes the day. The spring cleaning can wait.
Marc Blau, president of the the Shanaman Sports Museum of Tacoma-Pierce County, knows the feeling. It’s why he’s established the Old School Programs Flipboard Project, enabling visitors to the museum’s web site access to every page of more than 1,000 programs.