The ball which Shohei Ohtani made baseball history with by becoming the inaugural member of the 50-50 club sold for almost $4.4 million at auction on Wednesday, despite its ownership being the subject of an ongoing lawsuit.
On September 19, the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar went where no baseball player has gone before, hitting his 50th homer and stealing his 50th base of the season in a 20-4 win against the Miami Marlins – the first time in the sport’s history someone had reached those marks in a single season. Ohtani would end the regular season with 54 home runs and 59 steals.
” The lawsuit said that Matus would be “irreparably harmed” if the 50/50 ball is able to be sold, as it is a “unique one-of-a-kind item that cannot be replaced.” Goldin was originally named in the lawsuit but was voluntarily dismissed from the suit. In a statement sent to CNN on October 7, Goldin said that an agreement had been reached with all parties to allow the auction to proceed “without any interference from the pending litigation.
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