{"id":359506,"date":"2025-12-20T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359506\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:00:08","slug":"shohei-ohtani-trading-card-draws-record-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359506\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani Trading Card Draws Record Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Two-time World Series champion <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/shohei-ohtani-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> owns multiple records, and now, the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers&#8217;<\/a> superstar is attached to another landmark moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Ohtani&#8217;s stardom helped to reset the trading card market on Thursday as one of his 2025 Topps Chrome MVP Award Gold <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a> Logoman patch cards sold for a record $3 million through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanaticscollect.com\/premier\/568640a2-cfbf-11f0-9735-0a58a9feac02\/2025-topps-chrome-shohei-ohtani-gold-mlb-logoman-patch-auto-11-golda-so\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fanatics Collect.<\/a> The previous record for an Ohtani card belonged to a sale through Heritage Auctions for $1,067,000 back in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The sale accounted for several benchmarks, accounting for the highest publicly-sold Ohtani card of all time, the highest-selling card ever sold on <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/betting\/fanatics-promo-code\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fanatics<\/a> Collect Auction and the highest-selling modern baseball card of the last five years. The Ohtani card usurped the mantle previously held by a 1933 Babe Ruth Goudey card, which sold in 2024 for $1.63 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Per Fanatics, the 1\/1 autograph card amassed 69 bids\u00a0in a late-night bidding war that lasted past 2 a.m. ET. In addition to bearing Ohtani&#8217;s likeness, the unique card also contains a gold Logoman patch worn by the unicorn during an April 29, 2025, game against the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/miami-marlins-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a>; Ohtani went 1-4 and hit his seventh home run of the season in a 15-2 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Ohtani and the Dodgers, of course, went on to finish the 2025 season with a 4-3 defeat of the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/toronto-blue-jays-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> to win back-to-back World Series titles. Ohtani also earned his fifth-straight All-Star and sixth-straight All-MLB First Team nods, and won a third consecutive MVP award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Want great stories delivered right to your inbox?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Create or log in to your FOX Sports account<\/a>, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time World Series champion Shohei Ohtani owns multiple records, and now, the Los Angeles Dodgers&#8217; superstar is attached&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-359506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}