1981 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament

1981 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification	Division
Teams	4
Format	Double-elimination
Site	Bill Theunissen Stadium (1948) Mount Pleasant, MI
Champions	Eastern Michigan (1st title)
Winning coach	Ron Oestrike (1st title)
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1981 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
	Conf						Overall
Team	W		L		T	PCT	W		L		T	PCT
Central Michigan †	13	–	3	–	0	.813	37	–	13	–	0	.740
Western Michigan	14	–	3	–	1	.806	32	–	21	–	1	.602
Miami	12	–	5	–	1	.694	22	–	27	–	1	.450
Eastern Michigan ‡^y	9	–	7	–	0	.563	37	–	29	–	0	.561
Toledo	8	–	9	–	0	.471	30	–	20	–	0	.600
Northern Illinois	6	–	10	–	2	.389	19	–	26	–	2	.426
Kent State	5	–	8	–	0	.385	13	–	18	–	1	.422
Bowling Green	5	–	8	–	0	.385	13	–	18	–	1	.422
Ohio	5	–	13	–	0	.278	12	–	34	–	0	.261
Ball State	4	–	12	–	0	.250	18	–	22	–	0	.450

† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1981; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1981 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 16–18 of that year. The top four regular season finishers of the league's ten teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Bill Theunissen Stadium in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. This was the first time the Mid-American Conference held a postseason tournament to determine a champion. Fourth seeded Eastern Michigan won the first tournament to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1981 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The top four finishers were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage only. The teams played a double-elimination tournament.