1871 year when Frisbie Pie Company was founded in Bridgeport, CT 3 disc 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 […]
By Julia Shipley
Aug 06 2015
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
Contributing editor Julia Shipley’s stories celebrate New Englanders’ enduring connection to place. Her long-form lyric essay, “Adam’s Mark,” was selected as one of the Boston Globes Best New England Books of 2014.
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