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Rare Baseball Card Signed By Judge Ohtani Pulled From Falls Shop

Bonisiwe Shabane
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rare baseball card signed by judge ohtani pulled from falls shop

Rich Rinella has seen a lot in his 24 years as owner of All-Pro Sportscards. His customers have pulled cards worth thousands of dollars from his stock. "I've had plenty of four-digit cards hit in the store and I've even had a handful of five-digit cards," Rinella said July 29. "But I never have potentially had a seven-digit card hit in the store." That's all changed now, when one customer pulled a rare 1/1 Topps Chrome Baseball collectible baseball card at Rinella's shop, a card that could fetch the customer a huge price if sold. On July 23, one customer pulled a dual autograph Gold Logoman Patch card signed by 2024 MVP winners Aaron Judge (American League) and Shohei Ohtani (National League).

The card contains the signatures from both the two esteemed players, as well as the gold patches worn on the backs of their jerseys this year to signify their award-winning seasons. "I was floored. The first thing that came to my mind was, 'This is a million dollar card, this is a million dollar piece of cardboard,'" Rinella said. Rich Rinella has seen a lot in his 24 years as owner of All-Pro Sportscards. His customers have pulled cards worth thousands of dollars from his stock. “I’ve had plenty of four-digit cards hit in the store and I’ve even had a handful of five-digit cards,” Rinella said July 29.

“But I never have potentially had a seven-digit card hit in the store.” Join the discussion → Share your thoughts! Read more from our local writers → MI Secretary of State Candidate - Amanda Love That’s all changed now, when one customer pulled a rare 1/1 Topps Chrome Baseball collectible baseball card at Rinella’s shop, a card that could fetch the customer a huge price if sold. Collecting cards is absolute hell. It’s been that way since the pandemic.

It was around this time thousands of people stopped looking at cards as collectibles, and instead took to them as legalized gambling — not only driving prices up to astronomical levels, but making it... This is a two-part story. One, the tale of a collector who has pulled the best baseball card of the year, and secondly the best comeuppance for scalpers and price gougers imaginable. The card pulled was the grail of Topps Chrome Baseball 2025. An almost mythical double Dual-Auto MVP logoman of Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge, both with on-card autographs, critically meaning they physically signed the card. It’s one of the coolest things you can imagine.

A collector in Ohio bought a hobby box from a local card store and pulled the Topps redemption ticket which will be exchanged for the above card. It’s unclear what the card is worth, though it’s widely accepted it would easily reach well above six-figures on the open market if sold, and potentially eclipse the $1.11M paid for Paul Skenes’ rookie... Which brings us to the second part of this story which is equally feel-good: Price gougers getting their asses handed to them. See, in order to have a shot at pulling a card of this magnitude you need to sink serious money into the hobby. Before the Ohtani-Judge card was pulled hobby boxes of Topps Chrome Baseball 2025 were selling for $600 and up. This is more than three times the price they were released for by Topps, which was $200 at release.

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