The 1981 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament took place from May 16 to 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 won the first tournament to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1981 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Seeding and format The top four finishers were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage only. The teams played a double-elimination tournament. Team W L Tie PCT GB Seed 13 3 0 .813 14 3 1 .806 12 5 1 .694 9 7 0 .563 8 9 0 .471 6 10 2 .389 5 8 0 .385 5 11 0 .313 5 13 0 .278 4 12 0 .250
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