The sale of the New Balance cleats,

Shohei Ohtani wore during the 2025 MLB

Tokyo Series, his first major league

games played in Japan, at just over

440,000.

>> The space is on fire, setting an

all-time record by nearly 5x. There's so

much room to grow the category. For the

first time, there's so much interest in

the game where a sneaker category in

sports has hit this amount. Before it

was Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and now

Shohei Ohtani. What was funny, nearly

immediately after the auction, we had

people emailing, making significant

offers over the sales price. And I was

texting the the winner, asking if he

would take a significant chunk of change

to walk away and do nothing, and he

laughed. He said, "Absolutely not." He

thinks that these are million-dollar

plus.