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 1997 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] |
| width=10% | Position | width=15% | Name | width=15% | School | width=5% | ABCA | width=5% | BA | width=5% | CB | width=30% class="unsortable" | Notes |
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| Pitcher | Matt Anderson | Rice | 1st overall pick in 1997 MLB Draft[4] | ||||||||||
| Pitcher | Dan Reichert | Pacific | |||||||||||
| Pitcher | Chris Enochs | West Virginia | |||||||||||
| Pitcher | Jason Gooding | Texas Tech | |||||||||||
| Pitcher | Jason Navarro | Tulane | |||||||||||
| Pitcher | Clay Eason | North Carolina State | |||||||||||
| Pitcher | Jim Parque | UCLA | |||||||||||
| Pitcher | Kyle Peterson (2) | Stanford | |||||||||||
| Pitcher | Ara Petrosian | Long Beach State | |||||||||||
| Pitcher | Fresno State | 2006 World Series Champion[5] | |||||||||||
| Catcher | Giuseppe Chiaramonte | Fresno State | |||||||||||
| Catcher | Matthew LeCroy | Clemson | |||||||||||
| First baseman | Lance Berkman | Rice | 41 HR in a single season (1997) (3rd in Division I), 134 RBI in a single season (1997) (2nd in Division I), 263 total bases in a single season (1997) (4th in Division I), 109 runs in a single season (1997) (T-6th in Division I), 1.031 slugging percentage in a single season (1997) (8th in Division I), 6x MLB All-Star,[6] 2011 World Series Champion, 2011 NL Comeback Player of the Year | ||||||||||
| Second baseman | Keith Ginter | Texas Tech | |||||||||||
| Second baseman | Tom Sergio | North Carolina State | |||||||||||
| Third baseman | Pat Burrell (2) | Miami | Made BA team as DH, 1996 CWS Most Outstanding Player,.[7] 886 career slugging percentage (3rd in Division I),.[8] 442 career batting average (8th in Division I), 1st overall pick in 1998 MLB Draft,[9] 2008 World Series Champion,[10] 2010 World Series Champion | ||||||||||
| Third baseman | Troy Glaus | UCLA | 34 HR in a single season (1997) (T-7th in Division I), 4x MLB All-Star,[11] 3x Silver Slugger Award winner 2002 World Series Champion, 2002 World Series MVP | ||||||||||
| Shortstop | Brandon Larson | LSU | 40 HR in a single season (1997) (4th in Division I), 118 RBI in a single season (1997) (T-6th in Division I), 250 total bases in a single season (1997) (T-6th in Division I), | ||||||||||
| Shortstop | Adam Kennedy | Cal State Northridge | 254 total bases in a single season (1997) (5th in Division I), 2002 World Series Champion[12] | ||||||||||
| Outfielder | J. D. Drew (2) | Florida State | ABCA, Baseball America & Collegiate Baseball POY, Only Division I player with at least 30 HR and 30 SB in a single season (1997), 110 runs in a single season (1997) (T-4th in Division I), 31 HR in a single season (T-16th in Division I), 2008 MLB All-Star,[13] 2007 World Series Champion | ||||||||||
| Outfielder | Jeff Guiel (2) | Oklahoma State | |||||||||||
| Outfielder | Mike Marchiano | Fordham | 1.034 slugging percentage in a single season (1997) (6th in Division I),. 793 career slugging percentage (13th in Division I) | ||||||||||
| Outfielder | Roberto Vaz | Alabama | |||||||||||
| Outfielder | Jeremy Morris | Florida State | 36 doubles in a single season (1996) (T-2nd in Division I), | ||||||||||
| Outfielder | Brad Wilkerson ♦ | Florida | |||||||||||
| Designated hitter | Ryan Bordernick | South Carolina | |||||||||||
| Utility player | Tim Hudson | Auburn | 3x MLB All-Star 2010 NL Comeback Player of the Year, 2011 Hutch Award[14] | ||||||||||
| Utility player | Mike Frank | Santa Clara | |||||||||||
| Utility player | Mark Maberry | Tennessee Tech |