The Sporting News Rookie of the Year Award

The Sporting News Rookie of the Year Award is an annual Major League Baseball award established in 1946 by The Sporting News. For the first three years and again in 1950, there was a single award. In 1949 and since 1951, the award has been given to a rookie from both the American League and National League. In 1961 and from 1963 through 2003, The Sporting News split the rookie award into two separate categories, Rookie Pitcher of the Year and Rookie Player of the Year. In 2004 those two awards were discontinued, in favor of a single award, one for each league.
Below is a list of winners by year, name, team, league, and position.

1946–1949

1946
*Del Ennis
1947
*Jackie Robinson ^†
1948
*Richie Ashburn
1949
*Roy Sievers ^†
*Don Newcombe ^†

1950–1959

1950
*Whitey Ford
1951
*Minnie Miñoso
*Willie Mays ^†
1952
*Clint Courtney
*Joe Black ^†
1953
*Harvey Kuenn ^†
*Jim Gilliam ^†
1954
*Bob Grim ^†
*Wally Moon ^†
1955
*Herb Score ^†
*Bill Virdon ^†
1956
*Luis Aparicio ^†
*Frank Robinson ^†
1957
*Tony Kubek ^†
*Ed Bouchee
*Jack Sanford ^†
1958
*Ryne Duren
*Albie Pearson ^†
*Orlando Cepeda ^†
*Carlton Willey
1959
*Bob Allison ^†
*Willie McCovey ^†

1960–1969

1970–1979

1980–1989

1990–1999

2000–2009

2010–2019

2010
*Austin Jackson
*Jason Heyward
2011
*Mark Trumbo
*Craig Kimbrel ^†
2012
*Mike Trout ^†
*Wade Miley
2013
*Wil Myers ^†
*José Fernández ^†
2014
*José Abreu ^†
*Jacob deGrom ^†
2015
*Carlos Correa ^†
*Kris Bryant ^†
2016
*Michael Fulmer ^†
*Corey Seager ^†
2017
*Aaron Judge ^†
*Cody Bellinger ^†
2018
*Shohei Ohtani ^†
*Ronald Acuna ^†
2019
*Yordan Alvarez ^†
*Pete Alonso ^†