Frat-house frolics became a national obsession when Wham-O Manufacturing Co. of California began producing the Pluto Platter — soon renamed the Frisbee — on this day in history, Jan. 23, 1957. "The ...

A tireless summer companion, the frisbee has all the disadvantages of the boomerang and none of its virtues. It is a disc the size of a flying pancake, tossed into the air at the beach, and left at ...

As fads go, this one hasn’t faded — no easy feat in an era of couch-jockeys and joysticks. In fact, the flying disc is more popular, not less. High schools and colleges field Ultimate Frisbee teams.

Fred Morrison launched a leisure lifestyle with his fantastic plastic flying saucer. His contribution to recreation all over the globe gained air only after he dodged death by piloting fighter-bombers ...

NEW BRUNSWICK -- On Nov. 6, 1972, the first intercollegiate ultimate Frisbee game was played between Rutgers University and Princeton University, as shown in this photo from that day. The match took ...

Acadia Klain wasn't even a glimmer in her parents' eyes when one of her enduring passions was invented. Klain is co-captain of Carnegie Mellon University's Ultimate Frisbee women's team, in which the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - "Steady" Ed Headrick, the California inventor who figured out a way to make the Frisbee fly fast and straight, has died at the age of 78. His family said his ashes will be made into ...