$3 million! Ohtani Topps Gold Logoman autograph card smashes records at auction

With every passing season, two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani finds new and exciting ways to raise the bar -- and his collectibles are no different: His Topps Chrome Gold Logoman Autograph Card auctioned for $3 million including a buyer's premium on Thursday night, obliterating the previous record for Ohtani cards.

Like the guy on it, Ohtani's Gold Logoman card is 1-of-1 -- the only one of its kind in existence. Next to the Dodgers superstar's signature, the card includes a gold logo patch that adorned a uniform worn by Ohtani to commemorate his 2024 National League MVP Award, in a special program instituted by Topps and MLB this season to honor the sport's major award winners.

Ohtani wore this particular patch in a 15-2 victory over the Marlins on April 29, 2025, when he connected on his seventh homer of the season. The home run, which came off Miami ace Sandy Alcantara, was his first since returning from paternity leave after welcoming his first child.

The Gold Logoman Ohtani card was pulled not long ago by Pete Anderson and his 11-year-old twin sons Colton and Henry in Minneapolis as part of a box break; they had purchased the right to own any Dodgers cards that came out of a select number of packs of 2025 Topps Chrome. When a redemption card for the Ohtani Logoman emerged, they celebrated -- and then decided to put the card up for auction at Fanatics.

“They’re a big collecting family, but this is a meaningful amount of money for them, so they wanted to sell the card pretty much right away,” Fanatics Collect VP Kevin Lenane recently told MLB Network. “They loved the card, but for them, the value is in the experience, and not so much the card itself. And also, the dollars involved are pretty significant.”

Indeed, the bidding went berserk almost immediately, surpassing a million dollars in less than 24 hours. When the dust cleared, the Gold Logoman had set a new record for Ohtani cards; it broke his previous record, which was set by the 2024 Topps Black Logoman. That card had a patch from Ohtani's game-worn pants the night he pioneered the 50/50 Club with his 50th home run of the 2024 season.

In addition, the Gold Logoman is the highest-selling Dodgers card. It also surpassed last year’s Paul Skenes 1-of-1 Rookie Debut Patch Autograph Card, which was auctioned for $1.1 million at Fanatics Collect -- and in fact, the Gold Logofractor sold for the most of any modern card since Ohtani’s former teammate Mike Trout’s signed 2009 Bowman Chrome Prospects Superfractor card went for $3.93 million back in 2020.

Despite its lofty price tag, Ohtani just missed surpassing the legendary player he is most often compared to. The highest-selling baseball card overall in 2025 was Babe Ruth's 1914 Baltimore News rookie card, which went for $4.03 million in October.

In an interesting twist, Ohtani isn’t the only Dodgers superstar to make trading card headlines recently, as Knicks star Karl Anthony-Towns recently pulled a 1-of-1 signed card of World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, which he subsequently auctioned for $72,000. But Ohtani’s collectibles are simply next level, as evidenced by the seven-figure sums for his best cards.

Speaking of which, the buyer of the Gold Logofractor is yet unknown, but as for the sellers, the Andersons have some big plans, as they detailed to The Athletic. While both family patriarch Pete and sons Colton and Henry want to parlay their windfall into more cards to rip – as Pete said, “Ride the wave!” -- both kids prudently plan to set some aside for their future college tuitions.