Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
The Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament was the conference baseball championship of the Mid-American Conference, Division I members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. In its final format, the top six finishers participated in the double-elimination tournament, which was most recently played at Crushers Stadium in Avon, Ohio, from 2012 through 2019. The winner of the tournament received an automatic berth to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. The tournament began in 1981, but was not held from 1984 through 1991. It returned in 1992 and was held annually through 2019. It was scheduled to be played in May 2020, but was cancelled in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. As part of several changes announced in May 2020 related to the pandemic, the tournament was eliminated along with the post-season tournaments of seven other sports, for at least four seasons. Kent State won the most tournament titles with 12, followed by Eastern Michigan with four.
Format history
The event was a four team, double-elimination tournament from 1981 through its discontinuation after 1983 and again upon resuming from 1992 through 1997. Beginning in 1998, the format shifted to an eight team field, where it remained through the 2017 tournament. The tournament was reduced to six teams and the separate divisions were eliminated for 2018 following the loss of Akron in 2015 and Buffalo in 2017. The first All-Tournament Team and Most Valuable Player were named in 1992.Champions
By year
The following is a list of tournament champions and sites listed by year.By school
The following is a list of tournament champions listed by school and the years each team was eligible to play in the tournament.| Program | Tenure | Titles | Title years |
| Kent State | 1981–1983 1992–2020 | 12 | 1992, 1993, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018 |
| Eastern Michigan | 1981–1983 1992–2020 | 4 | 1981, 1982, 2003, 2008 |
| Bowling Green | 1981–1983 1992–2020 | 3 | 1998, 1999, 2013 |
| Central Michigan | 1981–2020 1992–2020 | 3 | 1994, 1995, 2019 |
| Miami | 1981–1983 1992–2020 | 3 | 1983, 2000, 2005 |
| Ohio | 1981–1983 1992–2020 | 3 | 1997, 2015, 2017 |
| Akron | 1993–2015 2020 | 1 | 1996 |
| Ball State | 1981–1983 1992–2020 | 1 | 2006 |
| Western Michigan | 1981–1983 1992–2020 | 1 | 2016 |
| Northern Illinois | 1981–1982 1998–2020 | 0 | |
| Toledo | 1981–1983 1992–2020 | 0 | |
| Marshall | 1998–2005 | 0 | |
| Buffalo | 2001–2017 | 0 |