{"id":4354,"date":"2024-09-26T07:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T07:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2024-09-26T07:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T07:22:49","slug":"shohei-ohtanis-historic-50th-home-run-baseball-to-be-auctioned-friday-minimum-bid-500000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=4354","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani\u2019s Historic 50th Home Run Baseball to be Auctioned Friday; Minimum Bid: $500,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shohei Ohtani Reaches 50-50 Club! Has Greatest Performance in Dodgers History, Dodgers Clinch!\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q3Mb0yqzxlc?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The baseball that left loanDepot Park in Miami last Thursday for Shohei Ohtani\u2019s 50th home run of the season will be auctioned off Friday.\u00a0<span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-613\" class=\"ezoic-adpicker-ad\"><\/span><span id=\"div-gpt-ad-dodgersnation_com-medrectangle-3-0\" class=\"ezoic-ad up-show\" data-google-query-id=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, Ohtani became\u00a0the first known player\u00a0in the history of Major League Baseball to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in the same season. He achieved both milestones during the Dodgers\u2019 20-4 win over the Miami Marlins. Ohtani\u2019s 6-for-6, 10-RBI performance is considered one of the\u00a0greatest individual games\u00a0in the history of the sport.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\">\n<p>Now, the fan who retrieved the baseball after a prolonged struggled in the left field seats is looking to cash in on his piece of history.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DAKxDEjRfX4\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=675&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fdodgersnation.com&amp;rp=%2Fshohei-ohtanis-historic-50th-home-run-baseball-to-be-auctioned-friday-minimum-bid-500000%2F2024%2F09%2F25%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A2503.400000035763%2C%22ls%22%3A471.5%2C%22le%22%3A2022.9000000357628%7D\" height=\"1167\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was one of the easiest [consignments] ever,\u201d Ken Goldin, founder and CEO of Goldin,\u00a0told ESPN\u2019s Dan Hajducky. \u201cOhtani [hits 50] on Thursday, literally Friday we heard from the guy, he contacted Goldin on his own through social media, flew a security guard down to Miami on Monday with a representative from Goldin, met him, flew back Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Goldin, the opening bid for this 1-of-1 piece of sports memorabilia is $500,000, but potential buyers will have a chance to purchase the baseball outright for $4,500,000 exclusively between Sept. 27 to Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\"><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-184\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"adometo\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ezoic-ad ezoic-at-0 large-leaderboard-2 large-leaderboard-2184 adtester-container adtester-container-184\" data-ez-name=\"dodgersnation_com-large-leaderboard-2\"><span class=\"reportline\" data-nosnippet=\"\" data-ez-ph-owner-id=\"184\"><span class=\"ezoicwhat\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"ezoic\" src=\"https:\/\/go.ezodn.com\/utilcave_com\/ezoicbwa.png\" alt=\"Ezoic\" name=\"?pageview_id=379ad9bf-4af8-4696-5ae7-33305f944cdc&amp;ad_position_id=184&amp;impression_group_id=dodgersnation_com-large-leaderboard-2\/2024-09-26\/6400295098195660&amp;ad_size=250x250&amp;domain_id=35990&amp;url=https:\/\/dodgersnation.com\/shohei-ohtanis-historic-50th-home-run-baseball-to-be-auctioned-friday-minimum-bid-500000\/2024\/09\/25\/\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If bidding reaches $3,000,000 prior to Oct. 9, the option to purchase privately will no longer be available, and interested parties must compete and bid for the baseball. Extended bidding will begin at 7 p.m. PT on Oct. 16. Interested bidders who want to purchase the ball privately can email\u00a0sell@goldin.com.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Sports 640\u2019s Andy Slater reported that the Dodgers originally offered the fan who caught Ohtani\u2019s 50th home run ball $300,000. Goldin confirmed to ESPN that \u201cthere was an offer by the Dodgers and (the fan) turned it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOhtani is truly one-of-a-kind, and the 50-50 record may be his crowning achievement. We\u2019re honored to bring this iconic item to collectors. This is a piece of baseball history that fans and historians around the world will remember for decades to come,\u201d said Ken Goldin, Founder and CEO of Goldin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The baseball that left loanDepot Park in Miami last Thursday for Shohei Ohtani\u2019s 50th home run of the season will be auctioned off Friday.\u00a0 Last Thursday,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shohei Ohtani\u2019s Historic 50th Home Run Baseball to be Auctioned Friday; Minimum Bid: $500,000 - Sport News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=4354\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shohei Ohtani\u2019s Historic 50th Home Run Baseball to be Auctioned Friday; 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