Father of Modern Frisbee Dies

Ed Headrick, father of the modern Frisbee and designer of Wham-O's first "professional model" flying disc, has died. He was 78. [read more]

A frisbee story. In January, 1996, my brother Michael died. I wrote a piece about this experience. (It is one of the oldest pages on this web site.) This is taken from that piece. It was during the memorial we had for Michael and my brother Roger was up at the front of the room talking about Michael.

And at the end of his speech he explained the frisbee hanging on the wall. When Michael had his gallery, Michael, Steve and Roger would play frisbee on their breaks. "Michael was a frisbeetarian. They don't believe in heaven or hell. They believe that when you die your soul just gets stuck up on the roof." Then he threw the frisbee to Steve who threw it back. Then Roger said "And now there is someone new." Then he threw the frisbee to Michael's son Joshua who then threw it back.