{"id":1121,"date":"2021-07-26T06:50:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2021-07-25T10:34:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T17:34:30","slug":"flip-how-the-frisbee-took-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/flip-how-the-frisbee-took-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Flip! How the Frisbee Took Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Flip! How the Frisbee Took Flight<\/em>
\nby Margaret Muirhead (Author) and Adam Gustavson (Illustrator)
\n@ Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a> | IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> Fred Morrison is credited with inventing this classic toy, but for centuries folks have been flipping for flying discs. Ancient Greeks flicked discs, and beginning in the 1920s, college kids at Yale University were tossing pie tins.<\/p>\n

Fred’s invention quest began in 1932 after tossing a tin popcorn lid around the backyard. For more than twenty years, Fred and his wife, Lu, tried and failed to perfect a flying-disc concept. Eventually they created what we know today as the Frisbee. <\/p>\n

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Copyright \u00a9 2021 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flip! How the Frisbee Took Flight by Margaret Muirhead (Author) and Adam Gustavson (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Fred Morrison is credited with inventing this classic toy, but for centuries folks have been flipping for flying discs. Ancient Greeks flicked discs, and beginning in the 1920s, college kids at Yale University were … <\/p>\n

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