According to a nearly century-old myth, a group of Yale students invented the frisbee from throwing around a pie tin, thus adding the popular item to an illustrious list of Connecticut’s firsts.

BRIDGEPORT -- There's a story told in these parts that goes something like this: The Frisbie Pie Co. on Kossuth Street sold its wares baked in steel tins. Students at Yale University used these ...

But the makeshift predecessor to the plastic Frisbee–a pie tin repurposed for a game of catch–has a murkier origin story. Morrison said that he and his then-future wife used to toss popcorn ...

as recounted in an online history of the Frisbee by Kennedy. At the time, it wasn’t an unheard-of activity: Kids and college students in New England had already been playing catch with pie tins ...

Dan O’Connor’s interest in the former Frisbie Pie Co. — the business credited with the invention of the flying disc later named the Frisbee — began when he found an old pie tin in a tag ...

His pies are 51 percent fruit and have a shelf-life of 10 days. Return of the Flying Pie Tin Peter Frisbie, 66, of Southbury, is a relative of the Frisbie Pie founders. He is not a direct ...

After hearing that students in New Haven had created an Ivy League fad tossing pie tins made by the Frisbie Pie Company, Wham-O seized on the trend and commandeered the name, changing the spelling ...

When I got home, I did a bit of research and learned the Frisbie pie tin was, in fact, a predecessor of today’s ubiquitous Frisbee flying disc; so I hung the tin on my office wall. And I was ...

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.