When the Frisbie Baking Company began selling their selection of pies to various colleges in New England at the end of the 1800s, perhaps the last thing they intended to do was give rise to a new sport. And yet, it took practically no time at all for the brightest minds in the Ivy League to realize the bakery’s shallow metal pie tins were ideal for tossing at each other. More than a century later, with the pie tin replaced with a perfectly balanced plastic disk and the random chucking replaced with a more formalized set of rules, the accidental creation of the Frisbie bakery, now redubbed the “frisbee,” has become an international sport. It’s called Ultimate Frisbee, and you can think of it as a non-contact hybrid of soccer and football. Sound interesting? Well, if you’d like to play, the Asheville Ultimate Club holds pick-up games every Sunday at 2 p.m. For directions, click here.
Beyond the disk
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