The first winner of the award,
Johnny Vander Meer, subsequently pitched in
Major League Baseball (MLB) and is best known for pitching back-to-back
no-hitters in 1938. Several winners of the award are inductees of the
National Baseball Hall of Fame:
Johnny Bench,
Vladimir Guerrero,
Derek Jeter,
Pedro Martínez,
Tim Raines,
Jim Rice, and
Phil Rizzuto. Two players won the award twice:
Gene Conley (1951, 1953) and
Sandy Alomar Jr. (1988, 1989). There was one tie, occurring in 1988 when Alomar Jr. shared the honor with
Gary Sheffield. Each winner of the award went on to play in MLB, with the exception of
Jason Stokes, who won the award in 2002 while in
Class A and later reached the
Triple-A level. Source: ==See also==