MLB logo patch from Clayton Kershaw's 3,000th strikeout jersey to be put into a baseball card

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Clayton Kershaw became just the 20th pitcher in Major League history to reach 3,000 career strikeouts on Wednesday night, and on Thursday Topps announced that the MLB logo patch from the back of the jersey he wore as he did it will be going into a one-of-a-kind baseball card.
The card is part of the Topps Dynasty Black brand, which began with cards bearing memorabilia from the game where Shohei Ohtani hit his 50th home run and stole his 50th base last season to become the first member of the 50/50 club. The Kershaw MLB logo patch card will be autographed and a redemption card for it will be sent in a randomly selected order of the print-to-order Topps Now card made to commemorate Kershaw's 3,000th strikeout.
BREAKING: The game-worn MLB Logoman from Clayton Kershaw's 3,000th strikeout is going into a 1/1 Dynasty Black trading card.
One lucky collector who buys the Topps Now base card will receive this 1/1 card with their order. pic.twitter.com/NDtl0m3Bs1
— Topps (@Topps) July 3, 2025
League logo patches are arguably the piece of memorabilia put into cards that is most coveted by collectors. NBA, NFL, and MLB cards bearing these patches have sold for millions, including the Topps Dynasty Black card with the MLB logo patch from Ohtani's 50/50 game-used pants that sold at auction for $1,067,500 in March. That was nearly double the second most expensive Ohtani card ever.
Ohtani's first million dollar card!
Last night the 2024 Topps Shohei Ohtani Black Dynasty '50/50' Relic 1/1 sold for $1,067,500, a record price for any Ohtani card pic.twitter.com/8FP1AksLfb
— Heritage Auctions Sports (@Heritage_Sport) March 30, 2025
Although this will only be the fourth Topps Dynasty Black card made to date (the previous three all included pieces of Ohtani's pants and batting gloves from the 50/50 game), the series has already established itself as the most exclusive in the sports card industry, since each card includes pieces of hall-of-fame-worthy items from historic milestone events.
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Kershaw's most expensive publicly sold card to date was his 2006 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks Autographs Red Refractor (of which only five were made) with a BGS Pristine 10 card grade and 10 autograph grade, which went for $123,221.22 at auction in November of last year. This Topps Dynasty Black card is almost certain to sell for multiples of that if it reaches the secondary market.
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