An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.[1]
From 1947 to 1980, the American Baseball Coaches Association was the only All-American selector recognized by the NCAA.[2]
| Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player had been named an All-American at that point | |
| ♦ | Inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame |
| width=10% | Position | width=15% | Name | width=15% | School | width=35% class="unsortable" | Notes |
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| Pitcher | Eddie Bane ♦ | Arizona State | 43 consecutive scoreless innings (T-4th in Division I),[3] 505 career strikeouts (6th in Division I), 213 strikeouts in a single season (T-6th in Division I) | ||||
| Pitcher | Ron Roznovsky | Texas | |||||
| Catcher | John Stearns | Colorado | 4x NL All-Star[4] | ||||
| First baseman | Jerry Tabb | Tulsa | 1971 College World Series Most Outstanding Player[5] | ||||
| Second baseman | Phil Turner | TCU | |||||
| Third baseman | Keith Moreland | Texas | |||||
| Shortstop | Roy Smalley | USC | AL All-Star[6] | ||||
| Outfielder | Bobby Tucker | Tennessee | |||||
| Outfielder | Steve Newell | Massachusetts | |||||
| Outfielder | Joe Wallis | Southern Illinois |