Sold for $440,055 on 89 bids at The Realest, reported August 19 by Sports Collectors Digest.
Ohtani's Tokyo Series game-worn New Balance shoes sell for a record $440,055
Shohei Ohtani's game-used, signed New Balance Ohtani 1 shoes, worn in the opening game of the 2025 MLB Tokyo Series, sold for $440,055 at The Realest, a public auction record for baseball footwear. The sale drew 89 bids and is the highest result in The Realest's history. It nearly quintuples the old baseball-footwear mark, Michael Jordan's $93,000 signed 1994 Birmingham Barons cleats, and puts Ohtani alongside Jordan and Kobe Bryant as the only athletes whose game-used footwear has cleared $300,000.
Source: Sports Collectors Digest . Published August 19, 2026
Sold for $341,600 in Goldin's Monthly Sports Elite Auction; all-time high for the card per Sports Collectors Digest.
2013 BBM Ohtani rookie card sells for $341,600, an all-time high for the card
A 2013 BBM 1st Version Red Foil Facsimile #183 Ohtani rookie, numbered 20/25 and graded PSA 10 (one of just two at the grade), sold for $341,600 in Goldin's Monthly Sports Elite Auction. Sports Collectors Digest calls it the highest public sale on record for the card, Ohtani's Japanese-market rookie. It appeared in the same auction recap as the Celebrini and Kobe Bryant records already reported, but this is a distinct lot for the BBM card.
Source: Sports Collectors Digest . Published August 19, 2026
Sold for $233,020 in Goldin's Monthly Sports Elite Auction; record for any Bowman Wembanyama card per Sports Collectors Digest.
Wembanyama 1-of-1 Bowman Chrome SuperFractor sells for a record $233,020
A 2025-26 Bowman Chrome SuperFractor #BCV-143 Victor Wembanyama 1-of-1 Jersey Number card, graded PSA 10, sold for $233,020 in Goldin's Monthly Sports Elite Auction. Sports Collectors Digest reports it as a record for any Bowman Wembanyama card. It ran in the same recap as the Ohtani and Celebrini lots, a separate record claim on its own terms.
Source: Sports Collectors Digest . Published August 19, 2026
Reported sold for $51,100 on eBay by Topps' own account on August 17; figure not independently confirmed.
Topps: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 1-of-5 Minions parallel sold for $51,100 on eBay
Topps' own account says Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's 2025-26 Topps Chrome Update 1-of-5 red refractor Minions parallel, which renders the reigning MVP as a Minions character in a Thunder uniform, sold for $51,100 on eBay. A 1-of-5 Minions parallel topped Cardboard Connection's most-watched board at 940 watchers days earlier, so the interest was tracking ahead of the sale. We could not independently confirm the exact figure beyond Topps' post, so treat it as a first-party claim.
Source: Topps (X) . Published August 17, 2026