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]
The NCAA recognizes two different All-America selectors for the 1984 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 | John Hoover | Fresno State | BA Pitcher of the Year, 42 career starts (Division I record),[4] 19 starts in a single season (1984) (Division I record), 205 strikeouts in a single season (1984) (10th in Division I) | ||||||||
| Pitcher | Scott Bankhead | North Carolina | |||||||||
| Pitcher | Todd Simmons | Cal State Fullerton | |||||||||
| Pitcher | Greg Swindell ♦ | Texas | 1989 MLB All-Star,[5] 14 career shutouts (Division I record), 19 wins in a single season (1985) (T-3rd in Division I), 204 career strikeouts (T-11th in Division I) | ||||||||
| Pitcher | Scott Wright | Cal State Fullerton | 22 saves in a single season (1984) (T-2nd in Division I) | ||||||||
| Catcher | B.J. Surhoff ♦ | North Carolina | 1989 MLB All-Star,[6] First overall pick in 1985 Major League Baseball Draft[7] | ||||||||
| Catcher | John Marzano | Temple | |||||||||
| First baseman | Mark McGwire | USC | |||||||||
| Second baseman | Billy Bates | Texas | 13 triples in a single season (1985) (T-4th in Division I) | ||||||||
| Second baseman | Bob Ralston | Arizona | |||||||||
| Third baseman | Gene Larkin | Columbia | |||||||||
| Third baseman | David Denny | Texas | |||||||||
| Shortstop | Cory Snyder | BYU | Made ABCA as utility player | ||||||||
| Shortstop | Barry Larkin ♦ | Michigan | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Inductee, 1995 NL MVP, 11x MLB All-Star,[9] 8x Silver Slugger Award winner, 3x Gold Glove Award winner, 1993 Roberto Clemente Award, 1994 Lou Gehrig Memorial Award | ||||||||
| Outfielder | Rafael Palmeiro (2) ♦ | Mississippi State | 4x MLB All-Star,[10] 3x Gold Glove Award winner, 2x Silver Slugger Award Winner | ||||||||
| Outfielder | Shane Mack (2) | UCLA | |||||||||
| Outfielder | Oddibe McDowell ♦ | Arizona State | BA POY | ||||||||
| Outfielder | Chris Gwynn | San Diego State | 137 hits in a single season (1984) (T-2nd in Division I), 243 total bases in a single season (1984) (9th in Division I) | ||||||||
| Designated hitter | Pete Incaviglia ♦ | Oklahoma State | 100 career home runs (Division I record), 48 home runs in a single season (1985) (Division I record), 285 total bases in a single season (1985) (Division I record), 1.140 slugging percentage in a single season (1985) (Division I record), 143 RBI in a single season (1985) (Division I record),. 915 career slugging percentage (2nd in Division I), 324 career RBI (2nd in Division I) 635 career total bases (9th in Division I), |