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 | Floyd Bannister ♦ | Arizona State | 186 innings pitched in a single season (1976) (Division I record),[3] 19 wins in a single season (1976) (T-3rd in Division I), 217 strikeouts in a single season (1975) (5th in Division I), 213 strikeouts in a single season (1976) (T-6th in Division I), 1982 AL All-Star,[4] First overall pick in 1976 Major League Baseball Draft[5] | ||||
| Pitcher | Richard Wortham | Texas | 50 career wins (2nd in Division I) | ||||
| Catcher | Jerry Willeford | Houston | |||||
| First baseman | Rick Honeycutt | Tennessee | 2× MLB All-Star[6] | ||||
| Second baseman | Greg Vogel | Penn State | |||||
| Third baseman | Guillermo Bonilla | Florida State | |||||
| Shortstop | Paul Molitor | Minnesota | National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee,[7] 7× MLB All-Star, 1993 World Series MVP, 1987 Hutch Award, 1993 Babe Ruth Award, 1997 Lou Gehrig Memorial Award, 1998 Branch Rickey Award | ||||
| Outfielder | Ken Landreaux | Arizona State | 1980 AL All-Star[8] | ||||
| Outfielder | Dave Stegman (2) | Arizona | |||||
| Outfielder | John Northrup | Central Michigan | |||||
| Designated hitter | Bill Ewing | Wyoming |