Shohei Ohtani Topps Now Card Makes History
The Shohei Ohtani Topps Now Baseball card recognizing his historic performance in Game 4 of this year’s National League Championship Series will become the first card from the series to receive Opal Chrome parallels, the company announced on Monday.
With a final print run of 253,309 cards, Ohtani’s dual-image card honoring his electrifying single-game showing of three home runs as a batter and 10 strikeouts as a pitcher becomes the first Topps Now card from 2025 to clear the 250,000 print run required to unlock Opal Chrome parallels.
Topps has not revealed the design of Opal Chrome parallels as of this writing.
The company introduced new Chrome parallels for Topps Now Baseball in 2025, but very few cards have reached the threshold required to unlock even the basic /99 and /50 Chrome parallels (50,000).
At 100,000, Chrome parallels numbered to /25 or fewer are unlocked, while Opal Chrome cards come into play at 250,000 and a 1/1 White OpalFractor is unlocked if a card’s print run exceeds 500,000.
The Opal Chrome parallels of Ohtani’s card, which is #884 of the season, will have print runs of /50, /25, /10, and /5, according to the Topps Now product page for 2025 cards. Collectors who ordered one of Ohtani’s cards also have the chance to find Foil parallels, Relic versions, or Autographed Relic versions.
This marks another Topps Now milestone for Ohtani, who also has the highest-printed Topps Now card. In 2024, the card commemorating him becoming the first player with 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season had a print run of 653,737 cards.
Earlier in 2025, Ohtani and Japanese teammates Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki nearly unlocked the second level of Chrome parallels, when card #7 featured the trio during the season-opening Tokyo Series and had a print of 99,226.
Going into the World Series, Ohtani has appeared on 32 Topps Now cards in 2025. Others to reach a 50,000 print run include:
