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 a Fanatics Collect auction.
A dinner-time online box break for Pete Anderson and his sons Colton and Henry landed the record-setting card for the Minnesota family. Anderson purchased the Los Angeles Dodgers place in a pick-your-team break, meaning the family would receive all the Dodgers cards pulled from the packs. The family was in the midst of clearing dishes after dinner when they got notifications that the redemption card for the one-of-one Ohtani card had been pulled for them.
“(Pete) was trying to explain to me how it was a bigger deal and he got this special card,” Pete Anderson’s wife Kari told The Athletic last week. “I kind of rolled my eyes, and he told me I was taking the fun out of it. And we went on with our night, per usual. I had no idea the extent of it or anything until days or weeks — or even months — later. Here today, now it’s still kind of crazy that this is a card that we acquired.”
This is the second Ohtani card to ever sell for at least $1 million among publicly known transactions, according to the online trading card sales database Card Ladder. The first occurred in March, when Ohtani’s 2024 Topps Dynasty Black MLB Logoman patch autographed one-of-a-kind card sold for just over $1 million through Heritage. That card featured the logo patch Ohtani wore on his pants the night he became the first member of the 50/50 club.
The market for Ohtani cards wasn’t even close to an apex during the time of that sale, however. Ohtani’s Card Ladder index, which tracks the overall market for his cards, is up more than 200 percent within the last year. The Dynasty Black MLB Logoman autographed card would likely sell for a much higher price now than nine months ago.
The Shohei Ohtani 1/1 autographed Topps Chrome Gold Logoman patch card. Photo: Fanatics Collect
This was the first season that MLB’s MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year award winners wore the gold patches. The patch in the Andersons’ card came from Ohtani’s uniform for the April 29 matchup between the Dodgers and Miami Marlins. Ohtani went 1 for 4 with a home run that day.
This Ohtani card is the 25th publicly known sale of a sports card to soar north of $1 million in 2025. Here are the top five from this year:
$12.9 million: 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Michael Jordan/Kobe Bryant dual NBA Logoman patch autographed one-of-one card, PSA 6 grade (Aug. 23 via auction at Heritage)
$10 million: 2006-07 Upper Deck Exquisite Michael Jordan/LeBron James dual NBA Logoman patch autographed one-of-one card, ungraded (Sept. 26 via private sale)
$4.7 million: 2018-19 Panini Flawless Luka Doncic NBA Logoman patch rookie autographed one-of-one card, ungraded (Sept. 26 via private sale)
$4.25 million: 2003-04 Upper Deck Exquisite LeBron James rookie patch autographed card numbered to 23, PSA 9 card/10 auto grade (Aug. 21 via private sale)
$4.03 million: 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth rookie card, SGC 3 grade (Oct. 24 via auction at Heritage)
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