Tokyo Big6 Baseball League

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Tokyo Big6 Baseball League

Sport	Baseball
First season	1914
Commissioner	Akio Kaneko
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Region	Kantō, Japan
Most recent champion(s)	Keio University (40th title)
Most titles	Hosei University Waseda University (46 titles)
TV partner(s)	Sports Bull, Abema, NHK
Official website	Big6.gr.jp
Locations

The Tokyo Big6 Baseball League (東京六大学野球連盟, Tōkyō roku daigaku yakyū renmei)^[a] is an intercollegiate baseball conference that features six prominent universities in the Tokyo area. It is the oldest collegiate baseball conference in Japan. Before the 1936 establishment of the Japanese Baseball League and subsequent growth (after 1950) of Nippon Professional Baseball, the Big6 League was widely considered the highest level of baseball in Japan.

All games are played at Meiji Jingu Stadium in Kasumigaoka, Shinjuku in downtown Tokyo. Games are known to be rowdy and celebratory, with cheerleading squads (応援団, Ōendan) and bands working themselves and the crowd into a frenzy.

It is also the origin of the Tokyo 6 Universities (東京六大学, Tōkyō roku daigaku) nickname that is given to the same six universities.
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