Shohei Ohtani isn’t participating in Tuesday night’s MLB All-Star Game, but his trading card market decided to break another record anyway.According to Fanatics Collect, which brokered the deal, the most expensive publicly known Ohtani card sale occurred recently as his 2018 Bowman Chrome Superfractor batting variation one-of-one rookie card with a Beckett 9.5 (Gem Mint) grade sold for $3.365 million.Ohtani’s 2018 Bowman Chrome rookie cards are widely considered his most desirable and this is the rarest version of the batting variation card produced. Demand for Ohtani cards is so high right now that even the far more plentiful base version of this card currently sells for around $2,000 ungraded.Shohei Ohtani’s 2018 Bowman Chrome Superfractor rookie card. (Photo courtesy of Fanatics Collect)This Superfractor sale breaks the previous record of an Ohtani sale that occurred in December 2025. His one-of-a-kind 2025 Topps Chrome autographed gold MLB Logoman one-of-a-kind patch card sold for $3 million in a Fanatics Collect auction. That card included one of the gold MLB logo jersey patches he wore to commemorate his 2024 MVP win.This is the fifth publicly known $1 million sale of an Ohtani card, according to online card sales database Card Ladder. It ties Ohtani with the Los Angeles Lakers’ Luka Doncic with five card sales of at least $1 million — the eighth most seven-figure sales for an athlete. The only other athletes with more card sales of $1 million or higher are LeBron James (28 sales), Mickey Mantle (22), Tom Brady (22), Honus Wagner (17), Kobe Bryant (15), Michael Jordan (13) and Babe Ruth (12).Overall, this card is the seventh known sports card to sell for $3 million or more in 2026. With this sale, Ohtani still trails Aaron Judge for highest individual card sale, as the Yankee great’s 2013 Bowman Chrome autographed Superfractor sold for $5.2 million in a deal brokered by Fanatics Collect in March.According to trading card sales and grading database GemRate, $16.76 million was spent on individual Ohtani cards on eBay in June alone, second only to Michael Jordan ($16.78m), up 8 percent from May.