1998 Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament

1998 Atlantic 10 Conference
baseball tournament
Teams4
FormatFour-team single elimination
Finals site
ChampionsFordham (1st title)
Winning coachDan Gallagher (1st title)
MVPTom Stein (Fordham)

The 1998 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Championship was held at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 12. It was scheduled to be a double-elimination tournament held at Bear Stadium in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, where it had been held from 1987 to 1997. Rain, however, forced the league to move it to the Phillies' Veterans Stadium and change it to a one-day, single-elimination tournament. It featured the top two regular-season finishers of each of the conference's six-team divisions. East Division second seed Fordham defeated Virginia Tech in the title game to win the tournament for the first time, earning the Atlantic 10's automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA tournament.[1][2]

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