An Ohio customer pulled a one-of-one Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge baseball card from a $2025 Topps Chrome pack; it later sold for $2.16 million

A baseball card found in a pack of cards in 2025 has sold for $2.16 million at auction. The rare card features Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge, two of Major League Baseball’s biggest stars, and includes gold Logoman patches and both players’ autographs. A customer at All-Pro Sportscards in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, discovered the card last summer in a pack of 2025 Topps Chrome.According to Baseball America, the card later went up for auction through Fanatics Collect, where it attracted 52 bids. It eventually sold for $2.16 million, including a $360,000 seller’s fee on top of the $1.8 million winning bid. The identities of the buyer and seller have not been made public.How did the Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge card sell for $2.16 millionThe card sold on Fanatics Collect in an auction that was scheduled to end late on Thursday, but continued into the early hours of Friday. Its final price was $2.16 million after 52 bids. That total comprises a $1.8 million hammer price and a $360,000 seller’s fee.The card had already reached $190,000 within three minutes of being listed on March 5. The buyer and seller have not been publicly identified. Topps posted that the card had been pulled by a customer at All-Pro Sportscards in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, during the previous summer.The one-of-one card features game-worn gold Logoman patches and two autographsThe one-of-one card is part of the 2025 Topps Chrome collection and features gold Logoman patches and autographs from both players. Each patch comes from a jersey worn during a game in which the player hit a home run. Ohtani’s patch was taken from a jersey he wore on May 26 against the Cleveland Guardians.Judge’s patch came from a game four days later, when he faced Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The gold Logoman design was introduced by Major League Baseball and Topps for the 2025 season. Six players, including Judge and Ohtani, wore the gold patches that year, each representing a reigning award winner in Major League Baseball.How MLB award winners shaped Topps’ gold Logoman cards in 2025 and 2026The gold Logoman design was introduced for the 2025 season and appeared on the jerseys of six players who held major MLB awards. Ohtani and Judge wore the patches as the reigning Most Valuable Players (MVPs). The other players were reigning Cy Young Award winners Chris Sale and Tarik Skubal, and reigning Rookies of the Year Paul Skenes and Luis Gil.Topps used patches from all six players in cards across several releases during the year. Ohtani and Judge repeated as MVPs in 2025, so both were set to wear gold Logoman patches again in 2026. Skubal and Skenes were also returning as reigning Cy Young winners, while Nick Kurtz and Drake Baldwin joined as the 2025 Rookies of the Year.Other cards have fetched higher pricesThe dual Ohtani-Judge card sold for less than Ohtani’s solo Gold Logoman card, which fetched $3 million at auction in December 2025.One week before the dual card sold, Judge’s 2013 Bowman Draft Superfractor autograph sold privately for $5.2 million, a modern-card sales record. The dual Gold Logoman’s price was also below a record-setting basketball card sale: a dual NBA Logoman autograph featuring Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant sold for nearly $13 million in 2025.You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.