A one-of-a-kind Shohei Ohtani trading card has reportedly changed hands for more than $10 million, days after a Florida collector pulled it from a hobby box at his local shop.
The collector found a redemption for the card — a 2026 Topps Chrome dual Gold Logoman autograph — at Boca Sports Cards in Boca Raton, meaning Topps will produce and deliver the finished piece rather than hand over a card straight from the pack.
High-end collector Matthew Allen said in an Instagram post that he had bought the card outright.
“To make it very clear, I paid over 10 million for the card,” Mr. Allen wrote. No independent transaction record has confirmed the sale. Mr. Allen is one of three principals behind Secure Collectibles, an investment firm he co-founded with “Shark Tank” personality Kevin O’Leary and Paul Warshaw.
The card carries two Gold Logoman patches commemorating Ohtani’s back-to-back National League MVP awards, along with two Ohtani autographs, one in English and one in Japanese kanji. The patches were game-worn in the seasons following each award: one from a Sept. 7, 2025, game in which Ohtani hit two home runs, honoring his 2024 MVP season, and the other from an April 12, 2026, home game, honoring his 2025 MVP season.
Hong Kong-based Grade10 had offered a $10 million bounty to whoever pulled the card, and Secure Collectibles previously offered $6.5 million — an amount Mr. Allen later said he expected to be surpassed.
If independently confirmed, the reported sale would rank among the highest-priced sports cards ever sold, alongside the $12.9 million Secure Collectibles paid last year for a Michael Jordan-Kobe Bryant Upper Deck dual autograph and the $12.6 million a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card fetched in 2022.
It also extends a run of record Ohtani sales: his solo 2025 Topps Chrome Gold Logoman autograph sold for $3 million in December, and a dual Logoman card pairing him with New York Yankees star Aaron Judge brought $2.16 million in March.
The pull comes as the National Sports Collectors Convention runs this week in Rosemont, Illinois, roughly a week after Topps released the 2026 Chrome Baseball set on July 22.
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