Shohei Ohtani’s 50th homerun was hammered for a record price of 4,392,000 USD at the auction on October 23. According to Goldin Auctions LLC, this is the highest price for a used baseball at auction, surpassing the $3,005,000 for the 70th baseball that Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit in 1998, when the player set the record for most homeruns in a season. Ohtani also became the first baseball player in history to hit 50 homeruns and 50 stolen bases in a single season.

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Besides the auction story, a rare event happened. The person who owns the ball and auctions it on the Goldin Auctions website is Christian Zacek – a spectator who came to watch the match and sat in the left stand at LoanDepot Park Stadium, Miami. However, two others, Max Matus and Joseph Davidov, filed a lawsuit with the court last month to prove that they were the ones who caught the ball first, not Christian. The outcome of the lawsuit is still pending, but according to court documents filed on October 16, all parties agreed that Goldin would deposit the proceeds from the sale of the ball into an account. bank and that amount will be transferred to the owner of the ball according to the court’s decision.