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Intercity baseball tournament
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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]

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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).

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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.

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  1. Teams supposed to play were Hakodate, Hakodate Ocean Club; Sendai, Sendai Railway Bureau (baseball team); Ōta, Ōta Yuhi (full name is Ōta Yuhi Club); Tokyo City, Fujikura Electric Wire Corporation; Yokohama, All Furukawa; Niigata, 日東紡; Nagoya, Toho Gas (baseball team); Osaka, Nakayama Steel Works (baseball team, under team name 中山製鋼 in this tournament); Himeji, Japan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. Hirohata (baseball team); Kobe, Kobe Customs; Kure, Kure Construction; Yahata, Yawata Steel; Tainan, Tainan Prefecture Team; Keijō, All Keijō; Dalian, Dalian works team; Xinjing; Manchuria Telegraph and Telephone (under team name 新京電電); Shanghai, 上海華中鉄道. Among those teams, All Furukawa, Kure Construction and 上海華中鉄道 have never appeared after this tournament.
  2. This title is not considered as two consecutive titles.
  3. Appeared as 大同製鋼.
  4. This team was virtually the farm team of Nankai Hawks.
  5. In previous tournament, it qualified automatically as a defending champion but broke the rule by using players from losing teams in Osaka qualification. Therefore it declined the automatic qualification and entered Osaka qualification. It won the qualification and used players from Nippon Life.
  6. Appeared as 松下電器.
  7. Appeared as 新三菱重工名古屋.
  8. Appeared as 住友金属.
  9. Appeared as 新日本製鐵広畑.
  10. Appeared as 三菱重工神戸.
  11. Appeared as 新日本製鐵八幡.
  12. Appeared as 神戸製鋼.
  13. Appeared as 三菱重工広島.
  14. Appeared as 新日本製鐵名古屋.
  15. Appeared as プリンスホテル.
  16. Appeared as 三菱重工長崎.
  17. Appeared as 本田技研鈴鹿.
  18. Appeared as 本田技研.
  19. Appeared as ホンダ熊本.
  20. Appeared as ホンダ.
  21. Appeared as 新日本石油ENEOS.
  22. Appeared as Honda.
  23. Appeared as 三菱重工神戸・高砂.
  24. Appeared as Honda熊本.
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