Dodgers Merchandise Reaches Million-Dollar Figures at Auction
A quartet of articles related to the
Los Angeles Dodgers reached a figure close to $900,000 in an auction by SCP Auctions, based in California, over the weekend.
Among the highlighted objects are the home run balls that tied and won Game 7 of the 2025 World Series, caught by the father-son duo John and Matthew Bains.
The home run ball that tied the game, hit by
Miguel Rojas, sold for $156,000. The game-winning home run ball by
Will Smith reached $168,000; both prices include the buyer’s premium.
Shohei Ohtani’s home run in Game 4 of the 2025 National League Championship Series, which went out of Dodger Stadium, sold for $270,000, also including the premium.
In the same auction, a bat used by Ohtani during his 50/50 MVP season in 2024, with photographic matching of five home runs in a 12-game streak between late August and early September by PSA Photo Match, sold for $300,000, including the premium.
After years of being underestimated in the collectibles world, Ohtani is finally having his moment.
The first sale of an Ohtani card for a million dollars occurred in March, when a collector paid $1.067 million for a one-of-one numbered card, autographed on the card and with the MLB logo from Ohtani’s pants worn while hitting his 49th, 50th, and 51st home runs of the 2024 season. A collector paid $542,900 for another numbered and signed Ohtani card, also one-of-one, earlier this month.
The property of Ohtani’s 50/50 home run ball, which the Taiwanese investment firm UC Capital turned into the most expensive baseball of all time with $4.39 million last October, is still in litigation, including a name correction for one of the original claimants, in the Florida 11th Judicial Circuit Court, with a hearing scheduled for January 13th.
