Rare Shohei Ohtani 50/50 card

When Shohei Ohtani hit his 50th home run last year to become the first member of baseball’s 50/50 club, Topps sold 653,737 copies of a Topps NOW card to commemorate the moment.

Among the record print run in the eight-year history of the Topps NOW program was a Gold parallel signed and inscribed by Ohtani.

Canadian collector Alex Housego ordered two 20-pack bundles of the card on the off chance that he might get one of the numbered parallels or maybe an autographed copy. Instead, one of the bundles contained a redemption card for a Topps NOW Autograph Card Gold Parallel. In December, Housego flew to Texas to pick up the card, which features Ohtani’s signature and his inscription “50/50 CLUB 9/19/24.”