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 three different All-America selectors for the 1998 college baseball season: the American Baseball Coaches Association (since 1947), Baseball America (since 1981), and Collegiate Baseball (since 1991).[2]
ABCA | American Baseball Coaches Association | |
BA | Baseball America | |
CB | Collegiate 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[3] |
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Pitcher | Jeff Austin | Stanford | Baseball America POY | ||||||||||
Pitcher | Seth Etherton | USC | |||||||||||
Pitcher | Mike Fisher | South Alabama | |||||||||||
Pitcher | Josh Fogg | Florida | |||||||||||
Pitcher | Jack Krawczyk | USC | 23 saves in a single season (1998) (Division I record), 49 career saves (2nd in Division I) | ||||||||||
Pitcher | Alex Santos | Miami | |||||||||||
Pitcher | Shane Wright | Texas Tech | |||||||||||
Pitcher | Jeff Weaver (2) | Fresno State | 2006 World Series Champion[4] | ||||||||||
Catcher | Sammy Serrano | Stetson | |||||||||||
Catcher | Josh Bard | Texas Tech | |||||||||||
First baseman | Eddy Furniss (2) ♦ | LSU | 80 career home runs (4th in Division I),[5] 689 total bases (3rd in Division I), 308 career RBI (6th in Division I) | ||||||||||
Second baseman | Jeff Pickler | Tennessee | |||||||||||
Third baseman | Bo Robinson | UNC Charlotte | |||||||||||
Third baseman | Aubrey Huff | Miami | 2008 Silver Slugger Award[6] | ||||||||||
Third baseman | Paul Day | Long Beach State | |||||||||||
Shortstop | Damon Thames | Rice | Made BA team as DH; ABCA POY | ||||||||||
Shortstop | Adam Everett | South Carolina | |||||||||||
Outfielder | Bubba Crosby | Rice | |||||||||||
Outfielder | Kevin Mench | Delaware | Collegiate Baseball POY 33 HR in a single season (1998) (9th in Division I), 1.091 slugging percentage in a single season (1998) (4th in Division I),. 875 career slugging percentage (4th in Division I) | ||||||||||
Outfielder | Jeff Ryan | Wichita State | 109 runs in a single season (1998) (T-6th in Division I), 231 total bases in a single season (1998) (13th in Division I) | ||||||||||
Outfielder | Eric Valent | UCLA | |||||||||||
Outfielder | Mike Curry | South Carolina | |||||||||||
Outfielder | Brian Cox | Florida State | |||||||||||
Designated hitter | Pat Magness | Wichita State | 309 career RBI (5th in Division I) | ||||||||||
Utility player | Brad Wilkerson (2) ♦ | Florida |