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It's March 1971 and Tigard, just outside Portland, Oregon.

At the headquarters of the athletics shoe company Blue Ribbon Sports, chief operating officer Bob Woodell maneuvers his wheelchair from behind his desk, makes his way across the office.

Then he picks up the pile of papers, finds the financial report he needs, wheels back to his desk.

He's about to start reading when Phil Knight, Blue Ribbon's founder and chief executive, hurries into his office.

Bob is Phil's right hand man. He's used to Phil dropping in unannounced.

Sometimes Phil wants him to solve a problem. On other occasions, Phil likes to run by new ideas.

But today, the look of panic on Phil's face tells Bob that there's likely a crisis brewing.

Hey Phil, what's up? You look like you've seen a ghost. It's Kitami. He's double crossing us.

Shoji Kitami is the international sales director for Onitsuka, the Japanese shoe manufacturer that supplies all Blue Ribbon Shoes.

Wait, wait, wait, double crossing us. I thought you just had a meeting with him. I did.

And he told me we weren't selling enough onitsuka shoes in America.

That's ridiculous. Our sales figures are doubling every year. What does he want?

Well, I told him that, but he said we should be tripling every year.

No, no, he's just getting hot under the collar. He does that every once in a while. Just leave him be. He'll get over it in a few days.

No, not this time. Why not? Well, when Kitami went to the bathroom, I looked in his briefcase.

Phil, I know. I shouldn't have. What if he had caught you?

Well, he didn't. Look what I found.

This is Kitami's itinerary for the next few days.

He's got meetings set up with 18 other distributors across the states.

But he can't do that. We have exclusive rights. Yeah, well, we're supposed to, right?

But it looks like that ship is about to sail.

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