1979 Trans America Athletic Conference baseball tournament

The 1979 Trans America Athletic Conference (TAAC) baseball tournament, the first-ever for the league known since the 2001–02 school year as the Atlantic Sun Conference, was held at Centenary Park on the campus of Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana, from May 10 through 13. Mercer won the first tournament championship. As a new conference, the TAAC did not have an automatic bid to the 1979 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

Format

The new league used a blind draw to determine matchups, and records for any earlier games between conference members are incomplete. The teams played a five team, double elimination tournament.

Results

* - ''Indicates game required 10 innings.''

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. No MVP was named until 1985.

POS	Player	School
P	Ken McLeod	Hardin–Simmons
P	Dwight Erhard	Oklahoma City
P	Dan Fitzsimmons	Mercer
1B	Jay Branham	Northeast Louisiana
1B	Scott Halam	Mercer
OF	Steve Brumfield	Centenary
OF	Rusty Hamric	Hardin–Simmons
OF	Frank Millerd	Mercer
OF	Don Murphy	Oklahoma City
OF	Jay Ross	Mercer
DH	Tom Patman	Oklahoma City