Summer is all about being outside, but itâs way more than just sunning and swimming. Itâs a great season for taking up a new outdoor game or sport to help you get moving and stay fit.
Not all of them need expensive specialized equipment. Furthermore, a lot of used sporting goods are great for beginners and can be snagged for a song at garage sales and thrift stores. Here is a brief history of some outdoor games you might be playing this year.
Frisbee
On Thanksgiving Day 1937, Walter Frederick Morrison and his future wife, Lucille, had a grand time tossing a popcorn can lid back and forth. They were playing the same game at the beach with a cake pan (worth 5 cents). A passerby offered them 25 cents for the pan. Morrison saw dollar signs â well, at least cents â in a 20-cent-per-pan profit. After World War II, Morrison and business partner Warren Franscioni started making flying plastic discs before ending their partnership in 1950. Morrison formed his own company, American Trends, and made Flyin-Saucers and the Pluto Platter flying discs. He later sold the company to Wham-O, who coined the term Frisbee.