The Frisbee toy evolved from the practice of college students tossing empty pie tins from the Frisbie Baking Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the 1940s. Fred Morrison designed a plastic flying disc in 1948 and sold it to Wham-O in 1957. Wham-O renamed it 'Frisbee' — a misspelling of the original bakery name — and it became one of the world's most popular outdoor toys.