Though I lost the official AL Rookie of the Year award to Eddie Murray, I won The Sporting News version for 1977 after being acquired from Pittsburgh along with Tony Armas.
In 1961 and from 1963-2003, The Sporting News (TSN) had separate
Rookie Pitchers of the Year and Rookie Players of
the Years awards. From 1948-1956, 1960, 1962 and since 2004, TSN has
had a single Rookie of the Year award. The first
Rookie Pitcher of the Year award went to a single recipient: Jack
Sanford.
In the entire history of the award, only Don
Sutton (1966) and Dennis
Eckersley (1975) have gone on to have a Hall of Fame career, showing
why it is difficult to get excited about the long term prospects of the
latest pitching phenom. (And even those two are unusual cases for other
reasons. Sutton simply hung around long enough to notch 300 victories and
Eckersley was considered a disappointment until he because perhaps the
greatest reliever ever late in his career.)
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--Patrick Mondout
WINNER
Rich Gale's otherwise unremarkable career is typical of a winner of this award.
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