Topps is celebrating Shohei Ohtani’s historic 50-homer, 50-steal season with a trading card set dedicated to the Los Angeles Dodgers megastar.
Releasing Monday at noon ET, 2024 Topps 50-50: Shohei Ohtani features a 100-card base set, with one card for every home run and every steal.
Ohtani finished his remarkable 2024 campaign Sunday with 54 homers and 59 steals. In his first season with the Dodgers, Ohtani led the National League in homers and RBIs (130), just missing the Triple Crown when his batting average finished at .310, just four points behind San Diego's Luis Arraez.
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Packs will include five cards and retail for $25, while 10-pack boxes will retail for $239.99. The complete checklist of parallels and odds for the product have yet to be announced, though all parallels, including base cards and autographs, will be under the Topps Chrome brand.
Among the chases will be three Dynasty Black 1/1 cards, including a 1/1 Logoman from the pants Ohtani wore during his 50th home run game.
Announced Saturday, Dynasty Black is a spinoff of the ultra high-end Dynasty set and will feature game-worn memorabilia from moments shown on the card. The other two Dynasty Black 1/1 cards will include the batting gloves Ohtani wore for the 50th home run.
One of the most expensive sets in the trading card hobby, Topps Dynasty is best known for on-card autographs and game-worn memorabilia, with boxes containing just one card, often numbered to 10 or less.
The Ohtani set is the latest Topps product to focus on a single athlete, with the company announcing Topps Mercury: Victor Wembanyama earlier this month. An ultra high-end product that is expected to feature a single athlete during his or her first season, Mercury is expected to retail for $8,000, with just eight cards per box.
The 50/50 set is also Topps’ latest attempt to capture Ohtani’s historic season with trading cards, following a number of Topps NOW releases, including the card commemorating the iconic 50/50 moment.
The Ohtani 50/50 card sold a Topps NOW-record 653,737 copies, shattering the mark held by the Olympic card of LeBron James, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant. That card gained massive interest amid the chase for a triple autograph 1/1 that would be included with one order — that card still has yet to surface publicly.
The interest in Ohtani’s 50/50 season has spilled into the memorabilia market as well, with Ohtani’s 50th home run ball currently at auction. That home run ball, which has been allowed to move forward at auction amid a lawsuit over ownership, has a high bid of $1.46 million as of Sunday evening.
Ben Burrows is a reporter and editor for cllct.