Frisbee Beginnings

Re “Ed Headrick; Inventor of Pro Model Frisbee,” obituary, Aug. 14: I think I can pinpoint when and where “Mrs. Frisbie’s” pie tins were first thrown. I was a student at Yale Law School from 1939 to 1942. We often took her empty pie tins to the law library. For exercise breaks, we would toss the pie tins in the small quadrangle of the law school. There was too little space and too many expensive windows for throwing baseballs. Three of us planned to add rubber extrusions to the ring of the tins to add stability. We even checked the cost of the extrusions but, alas, World War II interrupted our plans.

Steve Zetterberg

Claremont