Golden Spikes Award

The Golden Spikes Award is an award given annually, since 1978, to the best amateur baseball player in the USA. The award is sponsored by the United States Baseball Federation and the Major League Baseball Players Association. Almost every winner, excepting recent winners still in the minors, have made the major leagues and many have had good, long productive careers.

Award Winners

Year	Player	School	Position
1978	Bob Horner	Arizona State	2B
1979	Tim Wallach	Cal State Fullerton	1B
1980	Terry Francona	Arizona	OF
1981	Mike Fuentes	Florida State	OF
1982	Augie Schmidt	New Orleans	SS
1983	Dave Magadan	Alabama	1B
1984	Oddibe McDowell	Arizona State	OF
1985	Will Clark	Mississippi State	1B
1986	Mike Loynd	Florida State	P
1987	Jim Abbott	Michigan	P
1988	Robin Ventura	Oklahoma State	3B
1989	Ben McDonald	Louisiana State	P
1990	Alex Fernandez	Miami-Dade CC	P
1991	Mike Kelly	Arizona State	OF
1992	Phil Nevin	Cal State Fullerton	3B
1993	Darren Dreifort	Wichita State	P-DH
1994	Jason Varitek	Georgia Tech	C
1995	Mark Kotsay	Cal State Fullerton	OF-P
1996	Travis Lee	San Diego State	1B
1997	J.D. Drew	Florida State	OF
1998	Pat Burrell	Miami (Florida)	3B
1999	Jason Jennings	Baylor	P-DH
2000	Kip Bouknight	South Carolina	P
2001	Mark Prior	Southern California	P
2002	Khalil Greene	Clemson	SS
2003	Rickie Weeks	Southern	2B
2004	Jered Weaver	Long Beach State	P
2005	Alex Gordon	Nebraska	3B
2006	Tim Lincecum	Washington	P
2007	David Price	Vanderbilt	P
2008	Buster Posey	Florida State	C
2009	Stephen Strasburg	San Diego State	P
2010	Bryce Harper	Southern Nevada CC	C
2011	Trevor Bauer	UCLA	P
2012	Mike Zunino	Florida	C
2013	Kris Bryant	San Diego	3B
2014	A.J. Reed	Kentucky	1B-P
2015	Andrew Benintendi	Arkansas	OF
2016	Kyle Lewis	Mercer	OF
2017	Brendan McKay	Louisville	P/1B
2018	Andrew Vaughn	California	1B
2019	Adley Rutschman	Oregon State	C
2020	No Award
2021	Kevin Kopps	Arkansas	P

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