About Edwin J. Sprague
A “Guy Like Us," Edwin J. Sprague knows what its like to work from the bottom up.
He once accepted a $20,000 trial job offer and in less than five years became the president, leading the organization to fulfill and distribute more than $3 Billion in retail product. His clients included high-profile, celebrity-branded products and direct-merchandising titans QVC, Q-Direct, American Telecast Corporation, and Total Gym Fitness ... to name a few.
A bestselling and award-winning inventor earning numerous patents and selling millions of units, his ideas have sold at Walmart, Kmart, Dicks, Sports Authority, Academy Sports, Big Five and in thousands of retail locations in more than twenty countries and at countless on-line and specialty outlets.
A drop-out with a reading deficiency, he became an award-winning and bestselling author.
... Working his way up from the semi-pro football ranks and sandlot fields of The Philadelphia Men's League, he landed invitations and try-outs with the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles, Houston Oilers, Baltimore Colts, Dallas Cowboys and the USFL’s New Jersey Generals and Chicago Blitz before walking-on and being signed to an NFL free-agent player’s contract with the New York Jets.
He and his works have been seen on local and national TV and radio, on ESPN, in Forbes Life Magazine, Pop Culture Madness, Sync Magazine, Golf Digest, Japanese Nikkei Marketing Journal, Tour Partners Magazine, Golf Magazine and countless national and international print and online publications.
Born and raised in the row-home neighborhoods of Southwest Philly and Folcroft/DELCO, Ed is married with two sons and resides in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
