1993 College Baseball All-America Team Explained

An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each 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 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] In 1950, the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) selected its first All-American baseball team. It has since chosen All-American teams and a player of the year for each division (National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, Division II, Division III, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, junior college and high school).[2] Collegiate Baseball selects All-American, Freshman All-American and High School All-American teams.[3] Baseball America magazine selects pre-season and post-season All-American teams and College Player of the Year honorees.[4] [5]

Various organizations selected All-American lists of the best players for the 1993 NCAA Division I college baseball season. The ABCA, the magazine Baseball America, and Collegiate Baseball were the NCAA-sanctioned selectors.[6] This list only includes players selected to the post-season All-American first team for each selector. However, many All-American selections choose second, third, etc. teams from the remaining eligible candidates.

Accomplishments

The 1993 All-American class featured three Major League Baseball All-Stars, one Major League Baseball record holder and three World Series champions. Jason Varitek remained active. A total of eight players were selected by all three NCAA-sanctioned selectors: pitchers Dan Choi, and Brian Anderson; catcher Varitek; first baseman Ryan McGuire; second baseman Todd Walker; shortstop Mark Loretta; outfielders Eric Danapilis and Brooks Kieschnick.

Kieschnick was both a 1991 and 1992 selection.[6] He won the 1992 & 1993 Dick Howser Trophy, while Varitek won it in 1994. Varitek was honored by all three selectors in 1992 and 1994 and was player of the year in 1994. Walker, who won the 1993 College World Series Most Outstanding Player, was selected by all three organizations in 1994. Darren Dreifort repeated as a selection from the 1992 team. He won the 1993 Rotary Smith Award and the 1993 Golden Spikes Award, and Varitek won both awards in 1994.[7] [8] Both Arizona State and Texas A&M had two players included on the team.

Walker led the National League second basemen in fielding percentage and putouts during the 2002 Major League Baseball season.[9] Loretta was selected for the 2004 MLB All-Star Game. During the 2004 season he led the National League in sacrifice flies and led National League second basemen in assists. Loretta was later selected to the 2006 MLB All-Star Game. During the 2000 season he led National League shortstops in fielding percentage. He accumulated over 1700 career hits and won a Silver Slugger in 2004.[10] Varitek is a three-time MLB All-Star (2003, 2005 & 2008), Gold Glove-winner, Silver Slugger-winner and two-time World Series champion (2004 & 2007).[11] He has called the pitches for a major league record four no-hitters.[12] Paul Lo Duca had the most All-Star game selections of players in the 1993 All-America class with four (2003, 2004, 2005 & 2006). In 2002 and 2003, he led National League catchers in putouts, assists and runners caught stealing. However, in 2004 and 2005 he allowed the most stolen bases and in 2003, 2005 and 2006, he committed the most errors among catchers.[13] In 1998, Brian Anderson led the National League with the fewest bases on balls per 9 innings pitched (1.039), but surrendered the most home runs (39).[14] That season, he was a member of the inaugural Arizona Diamondbacks roster. He was also a member of the Diamondbacks' 2001 World Series Championship team along with 1993 All-American Troy Brohawn.[14] [15]

Key

ABCAAmerican Baseball Coaches Association[16]
BABaseball America
CBCollegiate Baseball
Awarded the Golden Spikes Award, Dick Howser Trophy or Rotary Smith 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[17]

All-Americans

Below are the Division I players selected to the various NCAA-sanctioned lists.[18] The default list order is arranged by the position numbers used by official baseball scorekeepers (i.e.,,, etc.).

width=15%Positionwidth=15%Name width=15%Schoolwidth=5%ABCAwidth=5%BAwidth=5%CBwidth=40% class="unsortable"Notes
Pitcher (2) ♦Wichita State
PitcherLong Beach State
PitcherWright State2001 World Series champion
PitcherTexas A&M
PitcherOregon State
PitcherAuburn602 career strikeouts (Division I record)[19]
PitcherNebraska2001 World Series champion
PitcherNorth Carolina41 career saves (8th in Division I), 141 games (3rd in Division I)
PitcherGeorgia Southern
Catcher (2)Georgia Tech3× MLB All-Star (2003, 2005 & 2008), Gold Glove, Silver Slugger, and 2× World Series champion (2004 & 2007) Caught 4 no-hitters
First basemanUCLA
Second baseman ♦LSU1993 College World Series Most Outstanding Player[20]
Third basemanNew Mexico
Third basemanArizona State
Third basemanArizona
ShortstopNorthwestern2× MLB All-Star (2004 & 2006) and Silver Slugger-winner
OutfielderNotre Dame
OutfielderNebraska.451 career batting average (5th in Division I),. 782 career batting average (20th in Division I)
OutfielderTexas A&M
OutfielderVanderbilt
OutfielderEast Carolina
Utility player (3) ♦TexasMade BA team as OF1993 POY (ABCA, BA, CB) 1992 & 1993 Dick Howser Trophy
Designated hitterArizona State129 hits in a single season (1993) (T-7th in Division I), 4x MLB All-Star (2003, 2004, 2005 & 2006)

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  1. Book: The Michigan alumnus. University of Michigan Library. 2010. B0037HO8MY. 495.
  2. Web site: This is the ABCA . May 20, 2010 . September 20, 2007 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100402022638/http://www.abca.org/ViewArticle.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=18900&ATCLID=1245576 . April 2, 2010 .
  3. Web site: All Americans: Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. May 20, 2010. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Inc. July 30, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100730123125/http://www.baseballnews.com/allamericans/index.htm. dead.
  4. Web site: College: Awards: All-America Teams. May 20, 2010. Baseball America Inc. https://web.archive.org/web/20100423145315/http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/college/awards/all-america-teams/. April 23, 2010 . live.
  5. Web site: College: Awards: Player Of The Year. May 20, 2010. Baseball America Inc. https://web.archive.org/web/20100423145341/http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/college/awards/player-of-the-year/. April 23, 2010 . live.
  6. Web site: Baseball Award Winners. May 11, 2010. National Collegiate Athletic Association.
  7. Web site: Rotary Smith Award. September 14, 2010. Baseball Almanac. February 2, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100202004616/http://baseball-almanac.com/awards/rotary_smith_award.shtml. live.
  8. Web site: Previous Golden Spikes Award Winners. September 14, 2010. USA Golden Spikes Award. https://web.archive.org/web/20100921031143/http://web.goldenspikesaward.com/index.html. September 21, 2010 . live.
  9. Web site: Todd Walker. June 8, 2010. Sports Reference LLC. December 4, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101204175607/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/walketo04.shtml. live.
  10. Web site: Mark Loretta. June 8, 2010. Sports Reference LLC. April 30, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110430114521/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/loretma01.shtml. live.
  11. Web site: Jason Varitek. May 13, 2010. Sports Reference LLC. https://web.archive.org/web/20100511102823/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/varitja01.shtml. May 11, 2010 . live.
  12. Web site: Red Sox' No-Hitter Puts Varitek in Record Books. May 13, 2010. May 21, 2008. The New York Times. Kaplan, Thomas. October 6, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141006185653/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/sports/baseball/21redsox.html. live.
  13. Web site: Paul Lo Duca. June 8, 2010. Sports Reference LLC. December 3, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101203143307/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/loducpa01.shtml. live.
  14. Web site: Brian Anderson. June 8, 2010. Sports Reference LLC. November 16, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101116121839/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/anderbr02.shtml. live.
  15. Web site: Troy Brohawn. June 8, 2010. Sports Reference LLC. https://web.archive.org/web/20100530094303/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brohatr01.shtml. May 30, 2010 . live.
  16. Web site: NCAA Baseball Award Winners. NCAA. April 8, 2012. March 4, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304205111/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/baseball_RB/2010/awards.pdf. live.
  17. Web site: College Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees. College Baseball Hall of Fame. April 12, 2012. October 12, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181012212118/http://www.collegebaseballhall.org/hall_of_famers.jsp. live.
  18. Web site: Baseball Award Winners. June 8, 2010. National Collegiate Athletic Association.
  19. Web site: Division I Record Book. NCAA. April 14, 2012. April 12, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190412174951/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/baseball_RB/2012/D1.pdf. live.
  20. Web site: Most Outstanding Player Award. September 14, 2010. CWS Omaha, Inc.. May 22, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150522124210/http://www.cwsomaha.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58034&Itemid=192. dead.

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