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Posted By: barrysloate

I second what Corey said. The earliet mass produced scorecards first appeared around 1870, and were nothing more than single sheets of heavy paper folded in half, with the scoring grid on the inside and some plain advertising on the outside. By the late 1880's, it wasn't unusual to find 32 page yearbook style programs with engravings and biographies of all the team's players.

That said, the two words tend to be used interchangeably.