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The Intercity Baseball Tournament
都市対抗野球大会

The Black Lion Flag, one of the tournament trophies and symbol of the tournament
Sport	Baseball
Founded	1927
Organising body	JABA Mainichi Shimbun
No. of teams	32
Country	Japan
Venue	Tokyo Dome
Most recent champion	Yokohama (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries East)
Most titles	Team: ENEOS (12) City: Tokyo (14)
Broadcasters	NHK, J Sports
Streaming partners	Mainichi website JABAstation
Sponsors	Mainichi Shimbun MIC
Related competitions	The Industrial National Championship Tournament
Official website	JABA website Mainichi website

The intercity baseball tournament (都市対抗野球大会 Toshi Taikō yakyū taikai) of Japan, commonly known as "Summer All-star or Mid-Summer Classic" (真夏の球宴 manatsu no kyūen), is an annual nationwide industrial baseball tournament in Japan, organized by JABA and Mainichi Shimbun and sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) by the grounds that "regional development is promoted through tournaments between teams that represent their cities."^[1][2]

The tournament is considered very traditional in Japanese baseball, since it predates the Professional Baseball and it is a way to reinforce the traditional regional sport rivalities existing across Japan, unlike the Industrial National Championship Tournament, the teams must represent the name of their town and use the flag or the seal/symbol of their cities in the right sholder of uniforms.

The winners are awarded the "Black Lion Flag" (黒獅子旗 kurojishi ki), runners-up are awarded the "White Lion Flag" (白獅子旗 shirojishi ki).

Winners

A bracket after city and team in champion column indicates number of titles.

(baseball team) links to Japanese Wikipedia article except club team and team does not have an article.

Note

References

External links

• Japan Amateur Baseball Association (JABA) (Japanese)
• JABA Official YouTube channel of JABA Station

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