The Topps Minor League Player of the Year Award was presented by The Topps Company in conjunction with Minor League Baseball to a minor-league player deemed to have had the most outstanding season.
A newspaper report of the 1972 result, the first tie in the award's history, noted that winners were selected via a poll of minor league baseball writers.
[1] It has also been known, circa 1970 onward, as the J. G. Taylor Spink Award,[2][a] although use of that naming has been inconsistent over time.
Namesake J. G. Taylor Spink was publisher of The Sporting News from 1914 until his death in 1962.
Blank entries indicate a winner is unknown, or the award may not have been issued.