The Snow Never Bothered Me Anyway

Once again, I say to you, happy spring.

It snowed today. It's not that crazy, as in 2010 it snowed in mid-April in Tokyo. I expected precipitation, albeit in the form of rain, so I still did what I planned to do. Well, mostly. I didn't go to any card shops as I originally hoped to, partly because my shoes aren't waterproof and my feet were cold, and partly because there are some auctions and such going on that I'm waiting to end before picking stuff up at those shops. 

So I got home a little earlier, and did nothing. And so this post is late, if there is such a thing. I've spent most of the evening doing basically nothing...

Anyway, I haven't been completely unproductive lately. Yesterday I showed you some sets, so today here are a couple recent single cards I've picked up. Think of this as a little bit of my March eBay haul. (I hate hauls, so this isn't a haul.)

 Spot the difference. (Yeah, there is none.) I have to use eBay scans, since my cards are on the other side of the world, but the American League Standouts and Astros sets use the same photos for Altuve. I haven't checked other players. The card on the left is from the AL Standouts blister pack set, while the right-hand card is from the Astros set. I got both of them for my Altuve collection, as well as a Tanaka card for my type collection. And one more from this set:

 Buck Farmer on his first Topps card since 2015! He appeared in 2016 Donruss and minor league team sets in 2016 and 2017, but it's been a long time since I've had a new Buck Farmer to chase. And it's already done. Though Topps does have an awful habit of making those large-sized limited sets, and there might be some /99 or /49 jumbo parallel online exclusive. But I'll cross that bridge if I come to it.

And speaking of Buck, I managed to find one of the more-elusive cards needed in my collection. This is the 2015 Topps Chrome Rookie Autograph Red Refractor card, numbered out of five. With the 2018 Topps Tigers Team card above, I now have 246 Buck Farmer cards! That's of 282 known cards, and a few of those might not even exist.

What's missing for Buck?

2015 Panini Immaculate College Blue (#/10) and Gold (#/5)

2015 Panini National Treasures College Gold (#/10)

2015 Panini National Treasures College Rookie Signatures Gold (#/10)

2016 Panini Georgia Tech Gold (#/25) and Black (#/10)

2016 Panini Georgia Tech Autographs Silver (#/99), Gold (#/25), and Black (#/10)

...and 27 1/1 cards. 

I'm not so sure any of those Georgia Tech cards exist, which makes up half of the "obtainable" Buck Farmers. It's funny how all the cards I need are Panini, too. (For the 1/1s, there are plenty of Topps cards, but I'm not counting those in this statistic.)

Hopefully Buck finds some success this year, and maybe makes his way on to a bit more cardboard. Though I'm not sure my wallet can afford it!