The baseball writers’ National League Rookie of the Year is named for Jackie Robinson, the great Brooklyn Dodgers star who, in 1947, won the major league Rookie of the Year award — there was only one covering both leagues then. Since 1960, a couple of years after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, the Dodgers have had 13 NL Rookies of the Year, far more than any other club, and had runs of four straight from 1979-82 and five in a row from 1992-96.
The first run covered Rick Sutcliffe, Steve Howe, Fernando Valenzuela and Steve Sax, who all either played on the 1981 World Series championship team or the 1988 World Series champs or, in the case of Valenzuela and Sax, both of those teams.