A Yoshinobu Yamamoto rookie card has pushed the Los Angeles Dodgers star into new territory in the sports card market.
Yamamoto’s one-of-one 2024 Bowman Chrome Rookie Autographs SuperFractor sold for $500,200 through Heritage Auctions, establishing a new public high for a card of the Dodgers right-hander. Heritage identifies the card as the “Glove Down” #CRAYY SuperFractor and lists it as a BGS Mint 9.
The result is particularly notable because Yamamoto’s previous card record was set only five months ago, and had already reached $461,160.
His 2024 Bowman Chrome Rookie Auto Superfractor 1/1 just sold for $500,200 🤯
The most expensive Yamamoto card ever sold.
Yamamoto’s $500,200 Sale Breaks His Previous Card Record
Heritage offered the card as Lot 80029 in its August 21-23 Summer Platinum Night Sports Auction, with a pre-auction estimate of $400,000 and up.
The card is serial-numbered 1/1, giving collectors the only SuperFractor from that particular Bowman Chrome rookie autograph issue. Beckett graded it Mint 9. Heritage also described it as a population-one example with none graded higher.
Its final $500,200 price surpassed the previous public benchmark for a Yamamoto card by $39,040.
That prior record belonged to a different one-of-one from 2024 Bowman Chrome: Yamamoto’s Image Variation Autographs SuperFractor. The BGS Mint 9 card, which also received a Beckett 10 autograph grade, sold for $461,160 through Goldin on March 15, 2026 after attracting 50 bids.
At the time, the sale established Yamamoto’s all-time card record.
It lasted a little more than five months.
The new Heritage result represents an increase of roughly 8.5% over that mark and, more importantly, puts the top end of Yamamoto’s public card market above $500,000 for the first time.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto Now Has Multiple Six-Figure Cards
The record comes just days after another major Yamamoto sale demonstrated how quickly his high-end market has expanded.
A one-of-one 2025 Topps Dynasty Autographed MLB Logo Patch card sold for $196,400 through Goldin on August 16. That card combined Yamamoto’s autograph with a game-used MLB Logoman patch and became his second-most expensive publicly reported card at the time.
It has already been bumped down the list.
The distinction between those cards also matters. The Dynasty card was produced after Yamamoto’s rookie season, while both cards above $450,000 come from 2024 Bowman Chrome and combine the two attributes that tend to carry enormous weight at the high end of the modern hobby: rookie-year significance and one-of-one scarcity.
Bowman Chrome rookie autographs have also become one of the hobby’s established benchmarks for young baseball stars, making the SuperFractor — the lone 1/1 at the end of the product’s parallel structure — an obvious target for collectors chasing the best possible version.
Yamamoto has supplied the résumé to go with the scarcity.
After helping Los Angeles win the 2024 World Series, he elevated his profile again with a dominant 2025 postseason and World Series MVP honors. Those accomplishments have transformed the context around cards produced when he was just beginning his MLB career.
Another potentially enormous Yamamoto rookie card also remains unresolved. Topps confirmed in August that the redemption for his one-of-one 2024 Topps Chrome Update MLB Rookie Debut Patch Autograph had still not been claimed nearly two years after the product’s release.
That card’s eventual appearance could give Yamamoto’s market another test.
For now, however, the number to beat is $500,200 — and a second Bowman Chrome SuperFractor has replaced the first at the top of Yamamoto’s card market.
Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Rookie Card Sells for Record Price at Heritage