Don Reents Retirement

 

I want to  congratulate Don Reents on his announced retirement from Chessex Manufacturing (See “Chessex Owner Donald Reents Retires”). Don has been a fixture in the industry and Chessex was the first national distributor to compete with The Armory, eventually merging the two companies in 1998 (See “Chessex Founder Don Reents”). Chessex was also the first company to greatly expand the varieties of dice stores offered to the hobby game customer as well as related items such as Battlemats, tokens and markers.  However, the thing I most remember about Reents was sitting down with him at Ft. Wayne Pentecon back in the late nineties and pelting him with questions about baseball and his thoughts about various aspects of the sport and its fans which I incorporated into my dissertation. So Don, happy retirement, thanks for the help and to paraphrase Douglas Adams “So long and thanks for all the dice”.