{"id":26682,"date":"2025-10-29T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=26682"},"modified":"2025-10-29T02:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:33:12","slug":"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-baseba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=26682","title":{"rendered":"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"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Today, that number feels like a bargain. Ohtani has since become a global phenomenon, winning MVPs, breaking records, and redefining what\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Beckett Collectibles (@beckettcollect) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beckettcollect\/status\/1983354519208796492\">Oct 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":26684,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[51,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-26682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-grading","8":"tag-beckett","9":"tag-x"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26683,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682\/revisions\/26683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}