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 1986 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pitcher | Greg Swindell ♦ | Texas | 1989 MLB All-Star,[4] 14 career shutouts (Division I record),[5] 19 wins in a single season (1985) (T-3rd in Division I), 204 career strikeouts (T-11th in Division I) | ||||||||
| Pitcher | Mike Loynd | Florida State | BA Pitcher of the Year, 223 strikeouts in a single season (1986) (3rd in Division I), 20 wins in a single season (1986) (T-Division I record) | ||||||||
| Pitcher | Rick Raether | Miami | |||||||||
| Pitcher | Alex Sanchez | Miami | |||||||||
| Pitcher | Richie Lewis | Florida State | 520 career strikeouts (3rd in Division I), 202 strikeouts in a single season (1986) (T-14th in Division I) | ||||||||
| Catcher | Doug Duke | Alabama | |||||||||
| First baseman | Rick Bernardo | Maine | |||||||||
| First baseman | George Canale | Virginia Tech | 76 career home runs (7th in Division I) | ||||||||
| Second baseman | Scott Cerny | UC Santa Barbara | |||||||||
| Second baseman | Luis Alicea | Florida State | |||||||||
| Third baseman | Jeff King | Arkansas | First overall pick in 1986 Major League Baseball Draft[6] | ||||||||
| Third baseman | Robin Ventura ♦ | Oklahoma State | NCAA record 58-game hit streak,[7] 302 career RBI (7th in Division I), 107 runs in a single season (1986) (T-9th in Division I),. 792 career slugging percentage (T-14th in Division I),. 428 career batting average (T-17th in Division I), 2x MLB All-Star,[8] 6x Gold Glove Award winner, Gold Medal at 1988 Summer Olympics[9] | ||||||||
| Shortstop | Matt Williams | UNLV | 5x All-Star,[10] 4x Gold Glove Award winner, 4x Silver Slugger Award winner, 2001 World Series champion | ||||||||
| Outfielder | Casey Close | Michigan | BA POY | ||||||||
| Outfielder | Thomas Howard | Ball State | |||||||||
| Outfielder | Gary Cooper (2) | BYU | 320 career runs (2nd in Division I), 359 career hits (10th in Division I) | ||||||||
| Outfielder | Todd Azar | Old Dominion | |||||||||
| Designated hitter | Kevin Burdick | Oklahoma | |||||||||
| Designated hitter | Craig Cooper | Georgia Southern | |||||||||
| Utility player | Winfred Johnson | East Carolina | Career .776 slugging percentage (22nd in Division I) |