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zachary harden
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![[Tokyo Big6 Baseball League]](../images/j/jp@bbl.gif)
image by Zachary Harden, 30 May 2017
The Tokyo Big6 Baseball League (東京六大学野球連盟, Tōkyō roku daigaku yakyū renmei) is a baseball league comprised of the six
largest universities in Tokyo Prefecture (Hosei, Keio, Meiji, Rikkyo,
Tokyo and Waseda). Formed in 1925, this was the top league of Japanese
baseball until the rise of the Nippon Professional Baseball league in
the 1950's.
Zachary Harden, 30 May 2017
This flag, which was reported by Nozomi Kariyasu in the
Japanese "Flag Hunting" Facebook group, was spotted by Yasuhisa Furuta
at Meiji Jingu Stadium in Tokyo. This flag contains the emblem of the
league, in white, on a blue background. According to the league website
(Japanese only), the symbol
mark is formed by having six "Dai" (大) kanji form a hexagon,
representing the six universities in the league. The English initials of
the league appears in the center of the hexagon.
Zachary Harden, 30 May 2017