Video from the Legends' Attic sports memorabilia shop shows the moment the collectible was found in a new pack of Topps 75th cards.
"I'm going to cherish it. It's the biggest part of my collection now, so it's going to be with me," the owner, who gave his name only as Steve, said of the one-of-one, die-cut card.
"I look at it, I'm still in shock -- from Saturday evening to now," Steve told ABC7 on Monday. "I think I've only gotten about eight hours of sleep since then."
He said he's planning on keeping the card, for now. But if he does decide to sell it, it could possibly become the most expensive Ohtani card ever produced.
In December, an Ohtani autographed, one-of-one numbered card sold for $3 million, including buyer's premium, via Fanatics Collect, ESPN reported. The sale nearly tripled the record paid for a card featuring the Dodgers superstar.
The 2025 Topps Chrome MVP Award Gold MLB Logoman Ohtani card -- a partnership between MLB and Nike wherein the jerseys of award winners from the previous season wear gold MLB logos on their jerseys the following season to subsequently be inserted into cards -- is the highest-selling card in Fanatics Collect's history and the most paid for a modern baseball card since the $3.96 million Mike Trout autographed rookie Superfractor sale in 2020.
The previous record for an Ohtani card was the autographed, one-of-one numbered Ohtani card that featured the MLB logo from the pants he wore while hitting his 49th, 50th and 51st home runs and stealing his 50th and 51st bases of the 2024 season, which sold for $1.067 million at Heritage Auctions, including buyer's premium, in March.
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"Ohtani is just this international Babe Ruthian figure, which is really hard to top," Fanatics vice president of marketplace Kevin Lenane said. "We try to listen to the collecting community and we heard this loud and clear: In high-end cards, if you're going to have patches in these cards that are worth a lot of money, let's have you be able to say, hey, this came from this game."
ESPN contributed to this report.