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The word rookie is no newcomer to the English language. The term is recorded as early as the 1860s for a “new recruit” to the military or a police force. Some think it was the very word聽recruit that was shortened into rookie. Others see influence in an old verb聽rook, “to cheat” someone, supposedly alluding to how old-timers can easily trick gullible noobs.

Whatever its exact origins, rookie took the field in the early 1900s, when the term referred to “new members of a sports teams,” particularly professionals. (It’s around this same time 谤辞辞办颈别听started naming any “beginner.”)聽Early in its career, rookie saw especial use in baseball, America’s great pastime and apparent progenitor of聽Rookie of the Year as phrase and praise.

A 1921 feature in the sports pages of Florida’s聽The Pensacola Journal christened Riggs Stephenson鈥攁 23-year-old in his first year playing second base for Cleveland Indians鈥攁s a “most remarkable rookie of the year.” Baseball wouldn’t formally honor any sluggers as聽Rookie 聽of the Year until the 1940s though.

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That year, the Chicago chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) presented its own聽Rookie of the Year聽prize and did so until 1947, when it ceded to the BBWAA’s national award, officially recognized by Major League Baseball (MLB). Its first honoree was Brooklyn Dodgers’ #42, Jackie Robinson, a legend inside the ballpark and out for breaking baseball’s color barrier. The MLB named its Rookie of the Year award the Jackie Robinson Award in his honor in 1987.

Basketball wasn’t far behind … courtside sportswriters named a pro basketball player聽Rookie of the Year聽starting in the 1947鈥�1948 season before the National Basketball Association (NBA) inaugurated its official award in 1952鈥�53 season. Called the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy (whose namesake was the rookie coach for the Philadelphia Warriors, now playing in the Golden State), the NBA Rookie of the Year has crowned some of the giants of the game, including Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, and LeBron James.

The title has not been without contention, though. In the 2017鈥�18 NBA season, the two leading nominees, the Philadelphia 76ers’ Ben Simmons and Utah Jazz’s Donovan “Spida” Mitchell, jawed over the very definition of rookie. Mitchell playfully trash-talked Simmons by claiming his competitor was not a true rookie, as an injury benched Simmons during what was technically his first season in 2016. Spida, ever the acrobat on the hardwood, showed off his reference skills when he sported an Adidas hoodie boasting our 亚洲网紅露点 definition of聽谤辞辞办颈别.听The experts countered that, while 2017鈥�18 was technically the second season for Simmons, he still qualified as a rookie because he didn’t play a single second of the shot clock that year.

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Rookie of the Year has also captured the popular imagination, such as in the 1993 feel-good film Rookie of the Year, following a Little Leaguer’s (Thomas Ian Nicholas) freak foray into the big leagues, based on the 1952 Roogie’s Bump.聽North Carolina-based indie rockers took Rookie of the Year as their band-name when they formed in 2002.

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Other sports variously award Rookie of the Year awards including Major League Soccer, NASCAR, the National Football League, the National Hockey League, and Women’s Professional Soccer. In many cases, including for the MLB and NBA, a Rookie of the Year聽is chosen based on total points as awarded by sportswriters and sportscasters who cover the sport.

Different fields also give out Rookie of the Year awards, notably including the Korean Music Awards, whose Rookie of the Year聽has been lauding best new arists in South Korea since 2004. Since 2011, the聽Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue聽has named a first-time swimsuit model Rookie of the Year, with Ashley Graham making news as the magazine’s first plus-size model to appear in the scantily clad pages as its 2016 Rookie of the Year.