With each passing season, two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani finds new and thrilling methods to lift the bar — and his collectibles aren’t any totally different: His Topps Chrome Gold Logoman Autograph Card auctioned for $3 million together with a purchaser’s premium on Thursday evening, obliterating the earlier document for Ohtani playing cards.
Just like the man on it, Ohtani’s Gold Logoman card is 1-of-1 — the one considered one of its variety in existence. Subsequent to the Dodgers famous person’s signature, the cardboard features a gold brand patch that adorned a uniform worn by Ohtani to commemorate his 2024 Nationwide League MVP Award, in a particular program instituted by Topps and MLB this season to honor the game’s main award winners.
Ohtani wore this specific patch in a 15-2 victory over the Marlins on April 29, 2025, when he linked on his seventh homer of the season. The house run, which got here off Miami ace Sandy Alcantara, was his first since coming back from paternity depart after welcoming his first little one.
The Gold Logoman Ohtani card was pulled not way back by Pete Anderson and his 11-year-old twin sons Colton and Henry in Minneapolis as a part of a field break; they’d bought the precise to personal any Dodgers playing cards that got here out of a choose variety of packs of 2025 Topps Chrome. When a redemption card for the Ohtani Logoman emerged, they celebrated — after which determined to place the cardboard up for public sale at Fanatics.
“They’re a giant gathering household, however it is a significant sum of money for them, in order that they needed to promote the cardboard just about straight away,” Fanatics Accumulate VP Kevin Lenane lately instructed MLB Community. “They liked the cardboard, however for them, the worth is within the expertise, and never a lot the cardboard itself. And in addition, the {dollars} concerned are fairly vital.”
Certainly, the bidding went berserk virtually instantly, surpassing one million {dollars} in lower than 24 hours. When the mud cleared, the Gold Logoman had set a brand new document for Ohtani playing cards; it broke his earlier document, which was set by the 2024 Topps Black Logoman. That card had a patch from Ohtani’s game-worn pants the evening he pioneered the 50/50 Membership along with his fiftieth dwelling run of the 2024 season.
As well as, the Gold Logoman is the highest-selling Dodgers card. It additionally surpassed final 12 months’s Paul Skenes 1-of-1 Rookie Debut Patch Autograph Card, which was auctioned for $1.1 million at Fanatics Accumulate — and in reality, the Gold Logofractor bought for essentially the most of any trendy card since Ohtani’s former teammate Mike Trout’s signed 2009 Bowman Chrome Prospects Superfractor card went for $3.93 million again in 2020.
Regardless of its lofty price ticket, Ohtani simply missed surpassing the legendary participant he’s most frequently in comparison with. The best-selling baseball card total in 2025 was Babe Ruth’s 1914 Baltimore Information rookie card, which went for $4.03 million in October.
In an fascinating twist, Ohtani isn’t the one Dodgers famous person to make buying and selling card headlines lately, as Knicks star Karl Anthony-Cities lately pulled a 1-of-1 signed card of World Sequence MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, which he subsequently auctioned for $72,000. However Ohtani’s collectibles are merely subsequent degree, as evidenced by the seven-figure sums for his finest playing cards.
Talking of which, the customer of the Gold Logofractor is but unknown, however as for the sellers, the Andersons have some large plans, as they detailed to The Athletic. Whereas each household patriarch Pete and sons Colton and Henry wish to parlay their windfall into extra playing cards to tear – as Pete mentioned, “Journey the wave!” — each youngsters prudently plan to set some apart for his or her future faculty tuitions.
