Shunni Ohtani’s historic 50th home run is worth up to $1 million on the first day of auction

CWith just over seven hours in the auction house, Shuni Ohtani’s 50th home run against the Miami Marlins can already boast that it’s on track to surpass every record imaginable if it continues the progress it started on.

Golden Auctions Bidding on the historic 50-50 ball opened at 7:00 PM (ET) with a base of half a million dollars and the first move only took 17 minutes to appear, increasing the value by approx. $50,000. The comings and goings of collectors led to nine more moves to double the initial value of the Auction And overcome Million dollars.

Last action on the site Goldin It happened at 2.32am and he arrived $1,050,000It is a number that has all the necessary conditions to surpass the historical record of the value it still holds Mark McGuire Since 1998 with the ball from his 70th career home run for which he was paid 3 million dollars.

Let’s remember that a fan (Max Mattos) He filed a lawsuit in the 11th Judicial Circuit Court in Dade County, Florida, stating that he was the real owner and not the person who seized it (Chris Bilansky)Accompanied by a friend (Kelvin Ramirez) So they took it from his hand by force.

Despite the constant complaints… Golden Auctions He made the decision that he had already planned to open the auction that was already scheduled for Friday the 27th.

It must be taken into account that the winner of the Ohtani Ball Auction, which will end next Tuesday, October 17, will have to add… Value added tax With this amount in it USA He is from 22%. So, to get into context, the current highest bidder should pay $1,281,000 To grab the ball.

To get an idea of ​​what this ball means to football lovers Baseball collection, Golden Auctions It has many related open auctions MLBAmong them is the 40-40 ball that the Japanese reached when the Dodgers beat Tampa Bay Rays 7-3, being the first Los Angeles player to achieve this mark.

Well, that ball is very important in history Dodgers “Just” reached the maximum value $77,100 The auction ends on Saturday, September 28th. It can be found on the auction house’s website “Plot 66”.