Anthony Chiusano | NCAA.com | July 19, 2022 Former college baseball players who have won the MLB Home Run Derby Pete Alonso's top highlights from CWS and NCAA tournament play Share Only 13 collegiate stars have gone on to take first place in the MLB Home Run Derby since the All-Star weekend event was introduced in 1985. The most recent to do so was Florida product Pete Alonso, who won the 2021 event at Coors Field in Denver with the New York Mets. It was his second consecutive derby win, becoming the first former college baseball player to achieve the feat. Before Alonso, only two MLB players in history had successfully defended their Home Run Derby title — Ken Griffey Jr. (1998-99) and Yoenis Cespedes (2013-14). Let's take a look back at the complete list of former college baseball players to lift the trophy: YEAR PLAYER MLB TEAM COLLEGE CAREER MLB HRS CAREER NCAA HRS 1986 Wally Joyner* California Angels BYU (1981-83) 204 43 1987 Andre Dawson Chicago Cubs Florida A&M (1973-75) 438 Stats N/A 1992 Mark McGwire Oakland Athletics USC (1982-84) 583 53 1995 Frank Thomas Chicago White Sox Auburn (1987-89) 521 49 1996 Barry Bonds San Francisco Giants Arizona State (1983-85) 762 45 1997 Tino Martinez New York Yankees Tampa (1986-88) 339 54 2001 Luis Gonzalez Arizona Diamondbacks South Alabama (1987-88) 354 23 2002 Jason Giambi New York Yankees Long Beach State (1990-92) 440 1992 stats N/A 2006 Ryan Howard Philadelphia Phillies Missouri State (1998-01) 382 50 2015 Todd Frazier Cincinnati Reds Rutgers (2005-07) 218 42 2017 Aaron Judge New York Yankees Fresno State (2011-13) 191** 18 2018 Bryce Harper Washington Nationals College of Southern Nevada (NJCAA)# (2010) 282** 31 2019, 2021 Pete Alonso New York Mets Florida (2014-16) 130** 23 #Junior College *Denotes that player was a co-winner ** Denotes active total That's 12 different winners spread out across nine different conferences and two divisions in the NCAA — Dawson played for Florida A&M back when the Rattlers played in Division II — with another from junior college (Harper). The only two NCAA conferences with more than one representative is the Pac-12 (McGwire, Bonds) and the SEC (Frank Thomas and Pete Alonso). 8 takeaways from the 2023 SEC baseball schedule release Initial impressions from D1baseball.com's Kendall Rogers on the 2023 SEC baseball schedule, plus the full week-by-week schedule. READ MORE 2023 SEC baseball regular season conference schedules announced The Southeastern Conference has announced conference baseball schedules for all 14 SEC schools for the 2023 season. Here are the dates and matchups. READ MORE Notable college baseball players who starred in the Little League World Series Hundreds of schools across three divisions of NCAA baseball have fielded teams for numerous years, making it difficult to pinpoint every athlete that's participated on a college program and in the 73-tournament-old LLWS. But though this compilation isn't comprehensive, we've put together a list of some of the most notable players who stepped on the collegiate and LLWS baseball diamond at some point in their careers. READ MORE