There it sits in a Baltimore nonprofit warehouse, stacked side-to-side along a wall like Scrabble game pieces waiting to be placed on the game board.
But these unique slats of hardwood with valued letters printed on them aren’t to be held in the palm of your hand.
When interlocked and spread out as they were 60-plus years ago, they’re as tall as a shooting guard, and 75 feet wide.
Baltimore’s Second Chance, the nonprofit that offers reclaimed and renewed items and materials for sale, has the iconic “MARYLAND” lettering from the endline of the University of Maryland basketball court from 1955 when Cole Field House opened.