Frisbee | New England’s Gifts

1871 year when Frisbie Pie Company was founded in Bridgeport, CT

3disc toys invented by Fred Morrison before the Frisbee (Whirlo-Way, Pluto Platter, Flyin-Saucer)

seven players on an Ultimate Frisbee team

100,000,000 Frisbees manufactured 1957–1994

80+ countries in which Ultimate Frisbee is played

74 mph fastest Frisbee throw, according to Guinness World Records

65dollar price on eBay for an original Frisbie pie plate

25 cents offered to Fred Morrison for the cake pan he was tossing on a Santa Monica beach in 1938

1920 year when Yalies began flinging their pie plates to one another

221pages in Frisbee: A Practitioner’s Manual and Definitive Treatise

1100 unique flying-disc specimens in Richard Pancoast’s basement collection in Stratford, CT

443 feetfarthest Frisbee toss, according to Guinness World Records