Baseball America

DANDY DOZEN

As college baseball enters the 2020s, we pause to reflect on the best players from the previous four decades. Baseball America published its first issue in 1981, and in that time—39 seasons—four players have achieved postseason first team All-America status three times.

Those four players—Brendan McKay, Greg Swindell, Jason Varitek and Robin Ventura—stand as four of the most accomplished collegians ever. But we aren’t content to stop there.

Read on to learn the identity of the top 12 most decorated college All-Americans of the BA era.

1. ROBIN VENTURA, 3B, OKLAHOMA STATE

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