On wednesday we will be at the National Constitution center in philadelphia or Harvard Law School professor lawrence a argues our guests dont like government is not representing its constituency. All these events are open to the public and if you are in attendance, take a picture antagonist at booktv on twitter, facebook or instagram. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Welcome to todays distinguished Speaker Series from our Binghamton University form. My name is jake andrews im a very proud superintendent of the Windsor Central School district and this years chair of the form. Today we are delighted to open our program to a number of Members Community members outside of the form for this very special event where we can hear from our own native son ed stack as he highlights the history of Dicks Sporting Goods its how we play the game. Which i was able to get early and read and its a great book, great story and if youve not got a chance to get that yet, i strongly encourage you to do that. We are thrilled to have you here today and welcome you home to share your stories. What to welcome our invited guests to particular i want to draw attention to the abnew Visions Business Academy students. We have students from the districts of our region and we are thrilled to have them here today in particular. For those of you not familiar with the forum, the Binghamton University form is a Membership Organization that brings together people who share a commitment for advancing Binghamton University and our Great Community here in the Southern Tier and strengthening the bond between the two. Our mission is to energize engage and enrich the university and Community Leaders as we work to establish a premier university hood and vibrant community. We welcome any of you that are interested to join our membership, its an Incredible Organization that brings great people together for outstanding events just like this. We are people in the lobby from current members and Staff Members that would be happy to tell you more information if youd like to join. As a courtesy before we get started i ask you to check to be sure your phones are silent and with another quick housekeeping piece we will have the opportunity after mr. Stack speaks to ask questions and at that time we will have microphones that will be available if you raise your hand, our staff will come over and get you the microphone. As you finish your meal and desserts, it is my pleasure to introduce our great president of Binghamton University harvey stenger. President stenger. [applause] thank you jason welcome to all our members and their guests today. Its great to see so many people here. Of course its a great event to be at to hear from one of our longtime supporters of the binghamton area, the Broome County area and Southern Tier, ed stack, what hes done for us over the course of his career in terms of decks open to his company but also the new Distribution Center in conklin and the investments this corporation has made in this area and the belief that this area deserves that Distribution Center i want to thank you ed for all that. Thank you very much. [applause] of course you wont be talking about that, he will be talking about his book today. Its ed its how we play the game. My dog enjoyed mine right there in the corner. Little puppy eating my books. Its been an exciting semester. The last couple weeks at Binghamton University i like to give a quick update. I want to make sure i save most of the time for ed. Did you hear what of our faculty members won the nobel prize . [applause] in chemistry. Stanley wetting him, hes been faculty at binghamton for 31 years and joined the faculty in 1988 after he left exxon where they put them on a management track and took him out of the scientific track and he said had to leave and find a place that would support me, he couldve gone anywhere, support me in my research around Energy Storage and he came to Binghamton University. You will be receiving the nobel prize i think december 10. What a humble man we had an event for him last friday about thousand people he gave his remarks we had the chancellor of the sony system there we had the chairman of the sony system there and his remarks were wonderful but what was really wonderful was afterwards the hundreds of students that came up to him and he did not leave that room until he had signed autographs and taking pictures with every single student. We had to finally tear him away because he had to go to another vet. We took him to the Confucius InstituteChinese Opera performance that night and he gave remarks and stayed on stage after some pictures and shook hands and took pictures with every there. I think he was the last one to leave. Not only is he a brilliant scientist, his great man hes gonna be a great ambassador for Binghamton University and future. Freshman class is all in and accounted for, 2900 freshman a thousand transfer students, 1600 new graduate students. Thats a record for us. We been working really hard to increase our graduate enrollment. We got 91 new students in our Pharmacy Program are doctor of Pharmacy Program which is one student over our goal they now have 231 students in that program. They will bring in the fourth cohort next year and bring them right around 320 to 330 students and graduates first class doctor pharmacy students in the spring of 2021. A Long Time Coming for that but definitely something that is outstanding. A little more than 14,000 undergraduates which is a number we want to maintain release markets. Average sat score 1370 Nine High School gpa of 95. Its a great group of students we have there and they work hard and they also support the region in so many ways through their volunteer work but also just living here and bringing their money from long island and spending it here too. [laughter] we also celebrated a new name for our decorous school of nursing. Its now will be known as the Decker College of Nursing Health science. Their Board Members from decker today. Decker foundation, thank you so much. With that we will be expanding the college into new programs and adding physical therapy program, Occupational Therapy program and speak and Language Pathology Program into that college. Thats exciting. The construction is still ongoing in johnson city so you have plenty of time to go over there if youre construction geek like im and watch the renovation of the old ej box factory its quite a transformation they are doing to that building. When its done it will be a stateoftheart facility inside one of the original buildings that ej had built. Were constructing an r d building between the building and the Pharmacy Building and weve also acquired 18 park street the old yellow also would building the state has given us funds to renovate that to invite Industry Partners in the pharmaceutical sciences to be coworking spaces with the rest of the university. Ads on 27 jenison avenue we will open up an elder care clinic in partnership with lourdes hospital. Still an anchor supporter of all the uhs activities there but its good to be working with both hospitals. If you look at 4246 athe building is gone at the parking lot for now but we are also holding that in case some universities industry would like to partner with us. Thats all i had to say today my marketing and communications folks have said all stand all the time. Although bell all the time. So we will be talking a lot about it you will hear more about it stan and his great achievements it had a lot of great achievements in the future. Thank you for being here. To introduce him, id like to introduce his sister, kim myers, who is going to introduce ed. [applause] first of all, id like to thank all of you so much for coming here today and im thrilled to be able to introduce my brother ed stack, author of the book its how we play the game. In the words of the great new york yankee catcher yogi berra, id also like to say to ed, thank you for making this event necessary. [laughter] i can promise you you will not be disappointed with what ed has to say about the history of little bait and tackle shop fathered by our dad dig stacked just up a few blocks from his very location. Someone who has known him longer than everyone else in this entire room i want to briefly tell you a few things that he wont. Back when we only had two stores and our stepmom sister tragically died of cancer eddie decided to do something. Dix sponsored a bass Fishing Contest with all the proceeds going to the american cancer society. He will tell you that over 30 years ago when Catholic Charities was trying to feed needy families at thanksgiving he donated over 100 turkeys and when the word went out wasnt enough turkeys donated more. Keep in mind, this was one in the business as my father would say, we were robbing peter to pay paul. He wont tell you about his laser focused on his Incredible Mission to expand the store to manifest destiny and the store being Dicks Sporting Goods because thats the way we refer to it growing up as the store because what other the store was there to be concerned about . s focus was also on the betterment of youth in our communities recognizing the life lessons that being part of the team can instill an individuals. Following our dads example. He decided to do something and he created Sports Matters Foundation that he will tell you more about later. He also wont tell you about the phone call he got from me in 2011 after our area had been hit with the most horrific flood he said to me what do they need . I said, eddie, they need anything and everything weve got. He said, how would you distribute them . Distribute all the items . I said we will go through the schools because they know the families in need. The next day truck after truck after truck came rolling into our area. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of sneakers, cooks, backpacks, and clothing to help those who had lost everything. He also wont tell you that when the company needed a new Fulfillment Center a Distribution Center to service the northeast quarter of the dix door, binghamton was his first choice for those 400 jobs created in the new stateoftheart Distribution Center now open about 10 miles up the road in conklin. One of the many clichcs my dad would always say to us is, never forget where you came from. He never forgot where he came from. This is where we came from. And yet, another School Shooting happened in parkland florida and what eddie wont tell you is when he called me to tell me of his commitment to do something, what i will tell you is in his voice was not that of ceos of billiondollar corporations, he was just my brother, a kid born and raised on the east side of binghamton. Angry and resolute to do something. Fully aware of the consequences and telling me, kim, this is going to be bad. This will cost us a fortune but i dont care. I have to do something. And boy did he ever. Ladies and gentlemen, lets welcome home my big brother the ceo of Dicks Sporting Goods, ed stack. [applause] [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you everyone for allowing me to be here and thank you to my sister, president stanger, everyone else thats here. North Benson University the nobel prize is like awesome. Congratulations. Thats terrific. When my sister, again, kim, thank you for the introduction. For all those who have siblings, brothers or sisters, how many . If they said they were going to introduce you at a thing like this and you thought about all the things you did to them when you were a kid it would probably make you pretty nervous. Some of the things i did to my poor sister was terrible. I remember one time, she always told me she would get me back for, and she hasnt yet. I thought this was going to be it. Theres two things i did to her that were really like all of you brothers here he was kind of understand this. She was making fun of me one day we had a cottage on page like and she wanted to go water skiing but she had been really busting me, and being like a little sister who could be a pain in the neck. I said i will take you waterskiing. Sure. So she got waterskiing and we used to go around the lake twice. Were going around the lake the second time, there was this huge thing the lily pads and you dont want to go swimming in the lily pad. I took my sister right through these lily pads and as she got right in the middle middle of the lily pads i abdrop that engine and drop my poor sister ready lowly pads. She was yelling and screaming. I hadnt even heard those words before that she was yelling at me. I pulled her back out. I thought that was one thing she could do is tell that story and get back at me. Another thing i thought she might say is we were at an event our kids were all really little and she looked at me and i was always playing tricks on my sister. She looked at me and said, that woman over there, her son goes to school with timmy, whats her name . He looked at her i said, thats mary. She said okay great. Goes running over to talk to her, she comes back, she punches me as hard as she could and said, you are such an ass hole. She said, you dont even know a ai said ive never seen that woman before in my life. [laughter]. Thank you for that, i really thought he could have busted me and you wouldve have every right to do so. I think you for allowing me to be here today and talk a little bit about basically three things, our business and how it got started and how we grew it and then around sports and whats happening in youth sports today. And how important that is for our kids. And then a bit about what we did from a firearm standpoint and why i actually wrote the book but first id like to talk about how this business originally started here in binghamton not far from where we are right now. This is the original story my father started. The way he started the business he was a kid working at him hamburgers not far from here. He was an avid fisherman, his dad was killed in a car accident when he was really young so he spent a lot of time fishing in the rivers with his grandfather. The army surplus was starting to dry up in 1948 or so ab said my father went home put the order together to get into the tackle business and as he told the story, and i talk about this in the book, as he told the story, every year he told the story he stayed up a little bit later. By the time he told the story to my kids he had stayed up all night long and it was only on like two yellow sheets of paper so i have no idea what he was doing all night but he said he stayed up all night. He went back in the next day gave the order to herb her glass and was obviously in a bad mood, told my father was a dumb kid didnt know it is doing and my father grabbed a piece paper from him walked out of the store and never went back went to his grandmothers health. This was a depression written family they really had nothing they had a scrape for everything they had. His grandmother finally said, what would it take for you to do this yourself . He said 300. She got up and walked to the back of the old kitchen into the cookie jar reached into the cookie jar and took out 300 and gave it to him and said go start your own business. He went to start this business and it started really small and we always used to tease him about how small it was because if you look right here, this place was so small that the post office didnt give it a full Mailing Address because its 453. 5 court street. Thats a pretty small place. He ran his business and did well some years, not so well some other years. He actually went out of business. He opened up a second store and went out of business. Six weeks or eight weeks later got back in the business but when he went out of business he made sure nobody lost any money. He made sure he gave all the product he could back to the suppliers he sold his house he sold his car he had to move back in with his mother my mother had just had me and was pregnant with kim, she had to move back in with her parents but he made sure nobody lost any money. About eight weeks later he got back into business and back on court street and always kind of did okay but was always in debt. He had a great story that he would always look at me and say, which i didnt understand at the time, if i had what i owed i truly be a wealthy man. A lot of people feel that way. But he had great empathy for kids. He was a tough guy my father was a real tough old school guy. He was in this warm and cuddly guy on the outside. But he had a really good hard on the inside. He redid how Little League was played in binghamton. He thought that was really that that was not right that more kids should have an opportunity to play. He got together with his buddies within Insurance Agency and put together these this leak and had four teams on e