Most Valuable Player
Over 22 different players have been named to an All-Star Rookie Team and then won a league MVP award. Only Ichiro and Fred Lynn did it during their rookie year. Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, and Cal Ripken, Jr. each earned two MVP awards. In 2011, Justin Verlander and Ryan Braun, were each named MVP for the AL and NL respectively.
Read more about this topic: Topps All-Star Rookie Teams
Famous quotes containing the words valuable and/or player:
“To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.”
—Marilyn French (20th century)
“If God had an agent, the world wouldn’t be built yet. It’d only be about Thursday.”
—Jerry Reynolds, Sacramento Kings’ player personnel director. Quoted in Newsweek (New York, November 25, 1991)