Sunday, January 21, 2007

On Jan. 23, 1957, the Wham-O toy company bought something called the Pluto Platter. A year later the name was changed to Frisbee. (College students had long enjoyed tossing around metal pie plates from the Frisbie Baking Company of Connecticut.) Over the past 50 years, about 300 million Frisbees -- plus many more disks from other companies -- have been sold.