Florida collector pulls 1-of-1 Ohtani card, sells it for $11M

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Shohei Ohtani leads off with his 300th career homer (0:38)

The mammoth 1-of-1 Shohei Ohtani Dual Gold Logoman autograph card has been found -- and already sold.

A collector in Florida pulled a redemption for the card from a hobby box of 2026 Topps Chrome Baseball at his local card store, Boca Sports Cards in Boca Raton, Florida.

High-end sports card collector Matthew Allen -- also known by his screen names shyne150 and Bolillo Lajan San -- told ESPN on Thursday he has purchased the card for $11 million.

"The card just resonated deep with me, and I was like, you know what, I have to get this card," Allen said.

The $11 million sale is the third-highest figure for a sports card, behind the $12.932 million for a 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Dual Logoman autograph of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant (1-of-1) sold in August 2025, and the $12.6 million for a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle, with an SGC 9.5 grade, sold in August 2022. A 2006-07 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection dual autograph of Jordan and LeBron James sold for $10 million in September.

The collector who found the card had purchased two jumbo cases of Topps Chrome and opened them at home, hitting the Ohtani card in his first box of the second case (each case contains eight boxes). Allen already had put out a $6.5 million bounty on the card on his Instagram account, and the collector reached out to him.

"I needed to let everyone know I wanted this card because it was ripping so rapidly that the chances were that it was going to come out soon," said Allen, who had spent the days since Topps Chrome was released on July 22 buying into breaks, hoping to land the card.

The collector and Allen negotiated late Tuesday night before coming to a final agreement the next morning.

"There's never been a bounty of $6.5 million in history, so it was a strong number," Allen said. "In hindsight, it was soft, but it got the job done because it did what it needed to."

Allen is one of three principals of Secure Collectibles, alongside "Shark Tank" personality Kevin O'Leary and Paul Warshaw. The group has purchased $250 million of high-end cards, according to Allen, including the record-setting Jordan/Bryant card, with the goal of sitting on most of those cards for at least a decade.

This Ohtani card features two gold patches of the MLB logo from uniforms he wore following his back-to-back MVP seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2024 and 2025.

Ohtani signed the card in English and Kanji. The patches are from a road game in Baltimore on Sept. 7, 2025, when Ohtani hit two home runs, and from a home game on April 12, 2026, when he also homered. Players who win MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year wear the special gold logo patch on their uniforms the following season.

The Ohtani card market -- at all sale prices -- has been booming over the past year; this is the fifth million-dollar sale of one of his cards since December. The previous high for an Ohtani card was $3.365 million on July 14 for his 2018 Bowman Chrome Superfractor carrying a BGS 9.5 grade in a private deal brokered by Fanatics Collect. A 2018 Topps Chrome rookie autograph of Ohtani numbered to 50 just sold for $136,640 after selling for $40,870 in September 2025.

On Thursday, an Ohtani/Aaron Judge Dual Gold Logoman autograph was pulled at the National Sports Collectors Convention in Rosemont, Illinois.

Allen said he wasn't interested in the card.

"Got to let other people have them and let them put their money out," he said.