Timeline Ed Stack

Businessman who took over his father's Binghamton store and built Dick's Sporting Goods. He stopped selling assault-style rifles in 2018 and later agreed to buy Foot Locker.

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1948 Ed Stack's father founds Dick's Richard Stack opens a bait-and-tackle shop in Binghamton.
1954 Ed Stack born Ed Stack grows up in Binghamton, New York.
1977 Ed Stack graduates from St. John Fisher Stack earns an accounting degree.
1984 Ed Stack becomes CEO of Dick's Stack takes over the two-store chain from his father.
1994 Ed Stack moves Dick's to Pittsburgh The headquarters moves as the chain expands.
2002 Ed Stack takes Dick's public Dick's Sporting Goods lists on the stock exchange.
2018 Ed Stack stops selling assault-style rifles After the Parkland shooting, Dick's ends sales of the rifles and stops selling guns to under-21s.
2019 Ed Stack publishes It's How We Play the Game Stack writes about building Dick's and the gun decision.
2021 Ed Stack hands over as CEO Lauren Hobart succeeds Stack, who becomes executive chairman.
2025 Ed Stack's Dick's agrees to buy Foot Locker Dick's agrees a $2.4 billion deal for the sneaker chain.