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Shohei Ohtani's historic 50/50 ball has a new owner -- the highly coveted piece of baseball memorabilia just sold for a whopping $4.39 MILLION at auction ... making it the most valuable ball in sports history.

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00:00Welcome back to TMZ Sports. Mike and Mojo. Mojo, that Shohei Ohtani 50th home run ball

00:10sold last night, Tuesday night, on the Golden Auctions block. You will not believe how much

00:16this went for. $4.39 million. Absolutely crushing the previous record for a ball that was $3

00:26million. Mark McGuire's 70th home run ball from some years back. Ken was here. Look,

00:31here he is, Mojo. I mean, there we are. That thing, I cannot believe it was worth $4.5

00:36million and I didn't try harder to steal it. It's remarkable, Mojo. We're not sure who

00:40the buyer was right now. They're still deciding if they're going to go public or not, but

00:44it shows how big of a star Ohtani is and I cannot believe near 4.5 million bucks for

00:49that ball. Remarkable. Remarkable.

00:51Goodness. I mean, shoot. What a jump over the previous record. Almost 1.4 million. I

00:58mean, the 70th. I mean, 70 is substantially higher than 50. Of course, it's not 50-50,

01:04but there's something to say about that. Then you factor in inflation over the years and

01:09these numbers jump pretty big.

01:11Mojo, I think it goes to show how big of a star Ohtani is. Don't you think so? I think

01:15it just, it's not necessarily even just about the 50, I think. I think it's also like a

01:19representation of this guy. We've never seen anyone like him, or at least we haven't in

01:23a long time, maybe since Babe Ruth.

01:25Oh, absolutely. I mean, that is a huge factor here. I mean, you said it from the start,

01:29man. They paid this guy the entire house and it probably still wasn't enough for how he's

01:35played on the field. I mean, there's that. And you got to know the star power of the

01:39athlete has to go into it. I mean, shoot for the right person. If it was their only home

01:43run ball of the season, literally one of one, you know, for the right person, that rate

01:48could be substantially high. So it's always about the story behind. It's not just only

01:53about the statistic. And when you're Shohei Ohtani, you kind of check all the boxes, right?

01:58I mean, you've done everything this year and now you're in the world series. So a really

02:02cool, great timing for this one. And yeah, crazy amount of money. Let's see how this

02:08one appreciates in the next five to 10.

02:10It'd be really interesting to see Mojo. Also be funny to see once this guy starts hitting

02:15more milestone home runs, that's going to happen. He's that good of a player. I think

02:20you're going to see fans who are going to great lengths to get these baseballs. And

02:24you know, knowing that this is basically a lottery ticket floating through the air. So

02:28$4.4 million. Absolutely amazing. Congratulations to Ohtani. Obviously, congratulations to Ken

02:33Golden, too. That's a pretty cool feather in the cap for Golden Auctions.

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