Renata Galasso

[savedfrommyspokes]

From my winter 1983 copy of BHCR, here is an interview with Renata herself .....apparently she and her husband (former Yankee batboy Bill Hongach) have/had quite a collection themselves. If I had a collection like the one they have, I would be smiling in all of my pictures (unlike Renata in this article).

[cannonballsun]

Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes

From my winter 1983 copy of BHCR, here is an interview with Renata herself .....apparently she and her husband (former Yankee batboy Bill Hongach) have/had quite a collection themselves. If I had a collection like the one they have, I would be smiling in all of my pictures (unlike Renata in this article).

This is a great thread, and I especially enjoyed reading this article.
I wasn't involved in the hobby from 1971 to 1988. I missed most of Renata's heyday, but I would often see the name.

[roarfrom34]

I own the original Ron Lewis artwork from one of her BHCR issues:

[Seven]

Chiming in on this thread.

Renata's store was not to far from where I grew up in Brooklyn; the same neighborhood actually. I wish there was a hobby store, similar to Renata's still around Brooklyn.

Like almost everything else with the vintage side of the hobby, things were better years ago. Never thought I'd wish I was older, but it is what it is!

As a side note, would love if a Net54 New York/New Jersey meet up could occur!

[Dennis K]

I remember purchasing sets from her in the early 80's. And if you purchased a certain number of sets, I think 3 sets would qualify, she would include an autograph poster of a player being featured that year. I would ask collector friends if they were planning on buying a complete set and once I had the required amount of sets, I would send in the order. A short time later the sets and autograph poster of the star player would arrive. I have a signed posters of Reggie Jackson and another of Frank Robinson.

[mortimer brewster]

Threads like this are why I keep coming back to this forum.

[mrmopar]

Not related to RGI, but similar. I just finished reading the book Pacific Trading Cards Owner Michael Cramer put out a couple years back. He described buying Topps closeouts, buying SEMI trucks full and storing them. It's mind boggling to even think about now, but when I used to visit his retail store and get his mail order catalogs, he was selling a lot of stuff for very cheap, for a very long time because he had so much of it. I vaguely remember buying 1984 Topps Football boxes at $5 each. I don't recall the year, but they would not have been too much older, as I left for the Navy in 1987. they had the heavy black markings on the box to show they were not original retail boxes.