Awards

Jim Rice won the following awards and honors throughout his career.

Awards

MVP - The Most Valuable Player Award honors the individual who made the greatest contribution to his team's success. Each year, members of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) select one recipient for each league.
1978

All - Star - Voted by fans as a starter, or selected by coaches as a reserve
1977
1978
1979
1980
1983
1984
1985
1986

TSN Player of the Year - The Sporting News chooses the recipient of this award each year.
1978

Outstanding DH Award - The Associated Press established this award in 1973. Baseball beat writers, broadcasters, and public relations directors who are members of the Associated Press vote on the award.
1977

Silver Slugger Award - An award to honor the best offensive player at each position. Major League managers and coaches use the three fields of the Triple Crown - batting average, home runs and runs batted in - and a combination of total bases when voting for each years recipients. (Note: this award only started in 1980.)
1983
1984

AP Majors All-Star - Members of the Associated Press, who are beat writers, broadcasters, and public relations directors, select an All-Star team at the end of each season. Note that it is only one player per position in the Major Leagues, not one from each league. (Note: this award only started in 1982)
1983
1986

Other honors

Top 5 MVP vote-getter:
1975 - 3rd (as a rookie)
1977 - 4th
1978 - 1st
1979 - 5th
1983 - 4th
1986 - 3rd

Red Sox Hall of Fame
1995

TSN 50 Greatest Sluggers
Selected as #43 all-time

All Sox Centennial Team
Boston Globe readers selected the all-time Boston Red Sox team during their 100th year. Rice was selected for one of the 3 outfield spots, along with Yaz and Williams.

Total Baseball - 400 Greatest
Two authors working for Total Baseball, the single most respected book in all of baseball, wrote a comprehensive list with their picks for the four-hundred greatest baseball players ever. The list took several years to research and develop and it is definitely one of the highest quality ranking lists every produced in baseball history.