Dodgers Merchandise Reaches Million-Dollar Figures at Auction
A quartet of items related to the Los Angeles Dodgers fetched a value close to $900,000 in an auction held by SCP Auctions in California over the weekend.
Among the highlighted items were 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 in Game 7, sold for $156,000. Likewise, Will Smith’s home run ball, which secured the victory in the same game, reached $168,000. Both prices include the buyer’s premium.
In addition, Shohei Ohtani’s hit in Game 4 of the 2025 National League Championship Series, which came out of Dodger Stadium, sold for $270,000, also including a premium.
In the same auction, a bat used by Ohtani during his 50/50 MVP season in 2024, which was recognized with photos of five home runs in a 12-game period 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 experiencing 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 unique numbered card with an autograph on the card, with the MLB logo, from Ohtani’s pants worn while hitting his 49th, 50th, and 51st home runs of the 2024 season. Another collector paid $542,900 for another unique numbered and signed Ohtani card earlier this month.
The ownership of the home run ball from Ohtani’s 50/50, which made Taiwanese investment company UC Capital the most expensive baseball of all time with a value of $4.39 million last October, is still being litigated, including a name correction for one of the original claimants, in the 11th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, with a hearing scheduled for January 13th.
