{"id":630490,"date":"2026-03-18T19:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/630490\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:08:51","slug":"baseball-card-icon-topps-eyes-home-run-in-japans-booming-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/630490\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball card icon Topps eyes home run in Japan&#8217;s booming market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/consumer\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Rare autographed Shohei Ohtani card sold for record $3m in 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260309N Ohtani baseball cards\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Among baseball star Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s limited-edition cards, the Topps Chrome Gold Logoman Autograph Card, center, sold for $3 million at auction in 2025. (Photo by Takeshi Watanabe)<\/p>\n<p>MAKOTO TANIGUCHI and TAKESHI WATANABE<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Amid a global boom in sports trading cards, U.S. collectibles company Topps is gearing up to expand in the Japanese market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumer Rare autographed Shohei Ohtani card sold for record $3m in 2025 Among baseball star Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s limited-edition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,80942,7808,6857,220,22442,37681,2012,2353,2352,3215,30942],"class_list":["post-630490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-npb","tag-baseball","tag-booming","tag-card","tag-eyes","tag-home","tag-icon","tag-japans","tag-market","tag-nippon-professional-baseball","tag-npb","tag-run","tag-topps"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116251759691300015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}