Edward W. Stack, born in 1954/1955, is an American businessman and the son of Richard "Dick" Stack, who founded Dick's Sporting Goods in 1948. After earning a Bachelor of Arts and Science degree in accounting from St.
John Fisher College in 1977, Stack joined the family business. In the early 1980s, he and his siblings purchased the company from their father when it had two locations in Upstate New York.