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b'Ray Schulte on going out on his own - \\n\\n"Once I said that to myself I go \'What am I doing? What am I doing? What am I doing?\' I was just so focused. I just said, \'I\'m going to do it.\' I had no idea that Don Mattingly was going to be the 1984 batting champion."\\n\\nRay Schulte, Sports Marketer Extraordinaire, Schulte Sports\\n\\nA Ockershausen:\\tThis is Andy Ockershausen and this Our Town, and we have the great pleasure today to talk to the president, owner, chief medical officer, chief boss of Schulte Sports founded in New York City in 1984. Ray, welcome to our town. \\nRay Schulte:\\tIt\'s my pleasure to be part of Our Town. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tOur Town, right Ray. You knew that.\\nRay Schulte:\\tYes, I did.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tI wish it was my town, but it\'s not. It\'s Our Town, everybody has it. Ray, I found out about a lot of things about you, and knowing you personally of course makes a big difference, but to find out about your early years in New York. I thought you were from up New York State but you tell me Westchester. \\nRay Schulte:\\tThat\'s where I was born. I was born and raised in Westchester up near Peekskill, West Point. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tBig bucks.\\nRay Schulte:\\tYou keep saying that. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tThey\'re building a new bridge. Is that the Tapan Zee Bridge across the Hudson? \\nRay Schulte:\\tIt\'s an old bridge. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tGoes over to West Point?\\nRay Schulte:\\tClose to it, yes. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tIt\'s a big, huge bridge. It\'s going to be eight lanes or something. It\'s probably a public works project.\\nRay Schulte:\\tHave you ever been to West Point?\\nA Ockershausen:\\tI love it. Absolutely. \\nRay Schulte:\\tIt\'s one of my favorite places. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tWe took Janice up there. My wife Janice, of course. We were guests of the Commandant of Cadets, and they were playing football. They were playing Harvard. I went to the football game and I called my friend Henry, the bookie, and said, "Henry, I\'m betting. Harvard, they got the worst looking uniforms. Nothing looks alike. They\'re awful. I\'m betting on Army." Harvard decimated them, beat the hell out of Army, but that\'s away from West Point. Isn\'t that a fabulous post, isn\'t it?\\nWeschester, NY | SUNY Cortland State | Tampa\\nRay Schulte:\\tIt\'s fantastic. I was born and raise in Westchester. Then I went to school in Cortland State. That\'s up near Ithaca, Cornell. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tIt\'s SUNY?\\nRay Schulte:\\tThat\'s a SUNY school. Yes. Spent four years up there. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tThat\'s close to Rochester? Cold country?\\nRay Schulte:\\tNo, it\'s actually in between Ithaca and Syracuse. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tOh, I see. Cold country, right?\\nRay Schulte:\\tCold country.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tThe finger lakes?\\nRay Schulte:\\tClose.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tWhat did you do in the winter in Cortland besides drink? You told me a story about the bars. \\nRay Schulte:\\tRemember, we were college kids. We spent a lot of time downtown just mingling and getting to know other people. You know how it is. \\nA Ockershausen:\\t10,000 for SUNY. They\'re six campuses all over the state of New York?\\nRay Schulte:\\tYes. I loved it. I went up there to play football and lacrosse and baseball. It was fun for me, and then I graduated there and went down to Florida in Tampa. \\nA Ockershausen:\\tHow do you go from Westchester ... Did you go to Miami first or Tampa first?\\nRay Schulte:\\tAfter I graduated, my whole deal was I was going to go down and visit my brother who went to the University of South Florida, and my uncle who worked in Tampa he had just started a radio station in Tampa, WRBQ.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tIs he still alive? Is the station still on the air?\\nRay Schulte:\\tYes. It\'s changed formats.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tOh, I\'m sure. The whole world has changed.\\nRay Schulte:\\tIt\'s still down there. I went down there. My intent was just go down and visit and then go cross country. Ended up going down there, spent all my money, ended up having to get a job, but it was good. I wanted to work for my uncle but there was a nepotism clause so I c...'