LISTEN: NPR Segment On The Birth Of Ultimate

August 24, 2018 by in Livewire, News

As a part of a series on the year 1968, NPR’s Weekend Edition produced a segment about the creation of ultimate. Listen below and get a taste of the sport’s history:

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