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Shana Wallace throwing the disc to DC Pickup teammates in an ultimate Frisbee game on the National Mall.
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Dan Roddick was one of the first ultimate players, back in the nineteen-seventies. He was so tall, the other players called him “The Stork.” He says that ultimate, like other disc sports, has always been kind of unusual. What does that mean? First, a lot of ultimate teams have unusual names. Examples include Karmakazee or Gravity Tractor. Dan “The Stork” Roddick says many teams also wear unusual costumes.
THE STORK: “Berkeley Flying Circus was one of the greatest. And they played in full clown gear. Just, I mean, the rubber noses, the fright wigs, everything.”
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: “The Stork” says one reason the sport of ultimate is unusual might be because of the Frisbee itself. He says the first Frisbee, called “the Pluto Platter,” had a message written on the back.
THE STORK: “The old Pluto Platter, the first disc that came out in the late 50s, it said ‘Play Catch, Invent Games.’”
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: The disc even looked like something out of people’s imaginations.
THE STORK: “It was like a little spaceship. It had little windows ‘round the top, and then the planets were engraved on the outer edge of the disc.”
JUNE SIMMS: Because Frisbees urged people to create games, “The Stork” says lots of children invented Frisbee sports. One of those children was Joel Silver. As a boy, he played a game that he called ultimate Frisbee. When Joel was sixteen-years-old, he suggested that his school start an ultimate Frisbee team. He and his friends wrote down the rules and taught other kids to play. In nineteen seventy, Joel’s high school played the first ultimate game against another high school.
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