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2024 Topps 50/50 Shohei Ohtani (Dynasty Black-Autographed Relic Card) #SOD1 PSA Mint 9, PSA/DNA Auto 9 - #'d 1/1. ...
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2024 Topps 50/50 Shohei Ohtani (Dynasty Black-Autographed Relic Card) #SOD1 PSA Mint 9, PSA/DNA Auto 9 - #'d 1/1. In order to provide some sense of scale to the matter, let's have a look at the demographics. In the full history of Major League Baseball, forty-seven different players have hit thirty home runs and stolen thirty bases in the same season. Raise those figures ten each, and you'll find just six members of the 40/40 Club. Add another ten to each tally yet again, and you're left with just one man.That man, of course, is the supremely gifted Shohei Ohtani, a Japanese national who has been defying expectations and conventional wisdom ever since his American League Rookie of the Year season in 2018. Imagine--a pitcher who finished in the top five in Cy Young Award balloting in 2022 winning multiple Silver Sluggers as a designated hitter. How is that possible? Babe Ruth is the only other figure in baseball history who has ever demonstrated such dominance from both ends of the sixty feet and six inches, but not even the iconic Bambino could approach the season Ohtani delivered last year.
The sharp minds at Topps understood that the singular achievement that Ohtani delivered to baseball history required its own cardboard commemorative, creating this extraordinary and singularly unique 1-of-1 card to celebrate it. This is part of the newly imagined "Dynasty Black" line of Topps cards, celebrating singular moments in baseball history with relic/autograph cards that are likewise one of a kind.
The design pairs the MLB logo from a game worn pair of Ohtani pants (as authenticated by Major League Baseball) with a gold sharpie autograph from the future first-ballot Hall of Famer. Surely the aesthetics will draw apt comparisons to the famous "Logoman" Michael Jordan card that dominated hobby press with its multi-million dollar sale last year. And certainly no post-war baseball player has approached the global fame of His Airness until this living icon crossed the Pacific to grace Major League Baseball with his brilliance.
While the edition of one already assures dominance in the PSA rankings, this card doesn't skimp on quality, as the PSA slab affirms. This is certainly one of the most desirable 21st century trading cards in the hobby. Graded PSA Mint 9 Auto 9. MLB Authentic KV367908 (pants swatch).
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2025 March 29 Spring Sports Card Catalog Auction #70019 (go to Auction Home page)
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