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Here you'll learn all about me and my dogs: The sport of Frisbee dogs, Our Competition Results, Training tips I have
gathered from the web, and more.
Here is a little History of the sport
In 1974, 50,000 spectators at Dodger Stadium
in Los Angeles jumped to their feet and cheered when an uninvited canine athlete named Ashley Whippet ran 35 miles an hour,
leaped nine feet in the air, and caught Frisbee discs from his owner Alex Stein for eight uninterrupted minutes between innings.
But neither that audience, nor the millions watching the pennant-crucial game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cincinnati
Reds on television, could have predicted they were witnessing the birth of a canine competition that would soon thrill legions
of dog lovers throughout the world.
Ashley's national stadium debut was engineered by his owner Alex Stein, then a student
at Ohio State. When Hollywood talent scouts failed to return Stein's calls, he took matters into his own hands and smuggled
Ashley into Dodger Stadium on the evening of August 4, 1974. Ashley went on to break all records, winning the Canine Frisbee
Disc World Championships three times.
Later, Ashley starred in a television commercial, entertained Amy Carter and her
friends at the White House, performed at half-time at the Super Bowl XII, and was a guest with Stein on such television programs
as: "Wide World of Sports," "Good Morning America," "The Tonight Show," and others. He entertained at practically every NFL
and Major League Baseball stadium in the United States and Canada, and starred in "Floating Free" - a film documentary nominated
for an Academy Award.
(thanks to cdd for this info)
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