In 2018, a collector named John walked into his local card shop in Sacramento looking for supplies. Before heading out, he made a last-second decision to grab a single $110 box of Bowman Chrome baseball cards. He took it home and left it unopened for a week. When he finally decided to rip it, he pulled something no one else on Earth ever would, the 2018 Bowman Chrome Shohei Ohtani Superfractor Auto 1/1. At the time, Ohtani was already rewriting baseball history as both a pitcher and a hitter, and this was the card everyone dreamed of pulling. When John sold it a few months later for $184,056, it became one of the most expensive modern baseball cards ever sold, a record-breaking sale for its

In 2018, a collector named John walked into his local card shop in Sacramento looking for supplies. Before heading out, he made a last-second decision to grab a single $110 box of Bowman Chrome baseball cards.

He took it home and left it unopened for a week. When he finally decided to rip it, he pulled something no one else on Earth ever would, the 2018 Bowman Chrome Shohei Ohtani Superfractor Auto 1/1.

At the time, Ohtani was already rewriting baseball history as both a pitcher and a hitter, and this was the card everyone dreamed of pulling. When John sold it a few months later for $184,056, it became one of the most expensive modern baseball cards ever sold, a record-breaking sale for its time.

Today, that number feels like a bargain. Ohtani has since become a global phenomenon, winning MVPs, breaking records, and redefining what’s possible in baseball. Over 50 of his cards have now sold for six figures, and if this one-of-a-kind Superfractor ever surfaced again, it would easily be worth millions.

— Beckett Collectibles (@beckettcollect) Oct 29, 2025