RUNNEMADE, N.J. — The consignment of Shohei Ohtani’s 50th home run ball from the Los Angeles Dodgers slugger’s 50/50 season in October 2024 felt simple for Goldin Auctions. Until it wasn’t. Selling what eventually became the most expensive baseball in history turned into legal gymnastics for Ken Goldin and his auction house. What started out…
The gold MLB logo patch was taken from a jersey worn by Ohtani last season and put into a baseball card. Photo: Luke Hales/Getty Images A new record sale for a Shohei Ohtani card occurred early Friday morning as his one-of-a-kind 2025 Topps Chrome autographed gold MLB logo patch card sold for $3 million in…
The refrain sounded all too familiar within the Anderson household, especially to Kari Anderson. Her husband Pete Anderson and their 13-year-old sons Colton and Henry approached dinner time with a distraction: an online baseball-card box break that they had bought into, but were unsure when the vendor would begin ripping open the packs on the…
Carlo Mendoza had to make a choice during Game 4 of the National League Championship Series. Enjoy some delicious Dodger Stadium nachos or launch into the bushes in the center-field concourse for a Shohei Ohtani home run ball. Safe to say Mendoza made the right decision by ditching the nachos to snag a piece of…
LOS ANGELES — David Aguilar has been a Los Angeles Dodgers fan for 50 years, but not once did he think he’d experience something like this. The Dodgers were trailing the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in the bottom of the seventh inning of Game 3 of the World Series. Shohei Ohtani, who was 3-for-3 with…
The best way to describe the ceiling for Shohei Ohtani’s baseball card market might be as “breakable,” as he’s established new highs time and time again. Gauging when Ohtani’s ceiling will become a more permanent fixture, though, is an ongoing and possibly neverending exercise. Take for example the plight of Randy Boudreaux. The CEO of…
There’s seemingly no end to Shohei Ohtani’s dominance both on the diamond and within the baseball card world. Ohtani cards commanded the most money on eBay from March through August tallying around $22.3 million, according to Gem Rate — a website tracking online sales and grading results. An Ohtani card was the most expensive modern…
On September 19, 2024, Shohei Ohtani earned the first and only key to the historic 50/50 club. By going six-for-six with three home runs, two stolen bases, and 10 RBI, he achieved a season-long chase with one of the greatest single-game performances ever. Naturally, every item tied to this historic achievement instantly became a desirable…
The Shohei Ohtani 50/50 bobblehead given away at Dodger Stadium on Thursday was highly coveted by fans in attendance, but it wasn’t the night’s most valuable piece of Ohtani memorabilia. With the Dodgers up 16-2 after seven and a half innings, the battered Athletics sent backup catcher Jhonny Pereda to the mound to pitch the…
Reigning National League MVP and World Series champion Shohei Ohtani has a stranglehold on MLB jersey sales over the past 18 months. The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar’s Nike jersey has sold “more than any other in the U.S., Japan and worldwide” since 2023, according to a joint news release by MLB and the MLB Players…