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 United States 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]
The NCAA recognizes two different All-America selectors for the 1982 college baseball season: the American Baseball Coaches Association (since 1947) and Baseball America (since 1981).[2]
| ABCA | American Baseball Coaches Association | |
| BA | Baseball America | |
| Awarded the Golden Spikes Award as national Player of the Year | ||
| 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[3] |
| width=10% | Position | width=15% | Name | width=15% | School | width=5% | ABCA | width=5% | BA | width=35% class="unsortable" | Notes |
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| Pitcher | Bryan Duquette | Hawaii | |||||||||
| Pitcher | Randy Graham | Fresno State | |||||||||
| Pitcher | Jon Furman | Pepperdine | |||||||||
| Pitcher | Don Heinkel | Wichita State | 51 career wins (Division I record), 39 career complete games | ||||||||
| Pitcher | Joe Kucharski | South Carolina | |||||||||
| Pitcher | Bryan Oelkers | Wichita State | BA Pitcher of the Year | ||||||||
| Catcher | Robbie Wine | Oklahoma State | |||||||||
| Catcher | Charlie O'Brien | Wichita State | |||||||||
| First baseman | Phil Stephenson (2) ♦ | Wichita State | Made BA team as DH, 420 career runs (Division I record),[4] 418 career hits (Division I record), 730 total bases (Division I record), 206 career SB (Division I record), 300 career BB (Division I record), 91 career doubles (3rd in Division I), 322 career RBI (3rd in Division I) | ||||||||
| First baseman | Steve Stanicek | Nebraska | |||||||||
| Second baseman | Mark Wasinger | Old Dominion | |||||||||
| Third baseman | Keith Mucha | Oral Roberts | |||||||||
| Third baseman | Jim Stewart | Virginia Tech | |||||||||
| Shortstop | Augie Schmidt | New Orleans | |||||||||
| Outfielder | Jim Paciorek | Michigan | |||||||||
| Outfielder | John Morris | Seton Hall | |||||||||
| Outfielder | Jeff Ledbetter | Florida State | BA POY, 346 career RBI (Division I record), 97 career HR (2nd in Division I), 704 career total bases (2nd in Division I), 42 HR in a single season (1982) (2nd in Division I), 273 total bases in a single season (1982) (2nd in Division I), 124 RBI in a single season (1982) (4th in Division I) | ||||||||
| Designated hitter | Mike Rubel | Cal State Fullerton |