Rookie of the Year is a yearly award given by most sports leagues to the best first year player in the league.
Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles.Ripken won the American League Rookie of the Year award in 1982 and the American League Most Valuable Player award in 1983.
Ichiro Suzuki won both the Rookie of the Year, and the MVP Award in 2001.
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The "rookie of the year" award.
Derek Jeter was the last Yankees player to win the Rookie of the Year Award. He won it in 1996.
It is now known as the "Jackie Robinson Award". Robinson won the first Rookie of the Year Award ever presented in 1947 and Major League Baseball recently changed the name of the award to honor Robinson.
Larry Bird was the first Celtic player to win the Rookie of the Year award in the NBA. Bird achieved this honor in the 1979-1980 season after making an immediate impact on the Celtics franchise.
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Vince Carter of the Toronto Raptors won Rookie of the Year in 1999.
He won the very first Rookie of the Year Award, in 1947. The award was renamed in his honor 40 years later in 1987.