The 1989 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Ray Fisher Stadium on the campus of the University of Michigan in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from May 19 through 20. The top four teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the ninth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their first tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. Illinois was the first team other than Michigan and Minnesota to win the event.
Format and seeding The 1989 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Iowa claimed the second seed by tiebreaker over Illinois Team W L PCT GB Seed 21 6 .778 17 11 .607 17 11 .607 16 12 .571 15 12 .556 15 13 .536 13 15 .464 11 17 .393 9 19 .321 5 23 .179
Tournament
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Rich Capparelli Illinois P Russell Brock Michigan C Mark Dalesandro Illinois 1B Tom Eiterman Ohio State 2B Wil Parsons Illinois SS Bob Christensen Illinois OF Don Cuchran Illinois OF Sean Mulligan Illinois OF Jim Durham Michigan DH Kourtney Thompson Michigan
Most Outstanding Player Rich Capparelli was named Most Outstanding Player. Capparelli was a pitcher for Illinois.
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