The minimum bid price is $500,000 (about 670 million won), and if you offer $4.5 million (about 6 billion won), you can purchase it without competition.
“Otani’s 50th home run ball was entrusted to Goldin, an auction house,” multinational sports media ESPN reported on the 26th (Korea Standard Time), adding, “The auction begins on the 27th local time.”
On the 20th, Ohtani set a record of 50 home runs and 50 steals in MLB’s first season with 6 hits, 10 RBIs and 4 runs in 6 at-bats, including 3 home runs and 2 stolen bases, in an away game against the Miami Marlins in the 2024 Major League Baseball at Rondipo Park in Miami, Florida.
At that time, Ohtani first hit 50 steals and then hit his 49th home run, 50th and 51st home runs in turn.
His 50th homer, a milestone, came in the seventh inning.
The home run ball went over the left fence, and about 10 spectators threw themselves to catch the ball.
Among them, a man caught the ball that fell under the table and soon went out of the stands under the guidance of club officials.
ESPN said, “The Dodgers offered $300,000 (400 million won) in honor of getting the ball back, but the crowd rejected it.”
According to the Guinness Book of World Records website, the most expensive home run ball sold at auction is Mark Maguire’s 70th home run of the season in 1998.토토사이트 순위
In January 1999, Todd McFarlane, a famous cartoonist, purchased it for $3.054 million (KRW 4.08 billion), including fees.
Aaron Judge’s 62nd home run ball of the season in 2022 was auctioned off for $1.5 million (2 billion won).
Attention is focusing on whether Ohtani, who will write a new history of baseball, will also write a new history in the home run ball auction market.