New Old Bromides

I wanted to do a quick post about a couple bromide cards I recently picked up from a seller on Ebay.  I've really cut back on buying much vintage but my curiosity was piqued by both of these cards so I couldn't resist.  Neither of these cards appears to be in Engel and both cards have blank backs.

Here's the first card:

There's a couple interesting things about this card.  The first is the team - Pacific.  This team only existed with this name in 1946, the year baseball resumed in Japan after the war.  The following year the team changed its name to the Taiyo Robins (not to be confused with the Taiyo Whales) and later became the Shochiku Robins before merging with the Whales in the early 50's.  That obviously implies that the photo is from 1946.  The card, however, is probably from 1947.  Why?  The two kanji characters at the top - 太陽 - is the kanji for "Taiyo".

The other interesting thing is the players.  The seller on Ebay only identified the player on the left - Shigetoshi Morishita.  I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure that the player on the right is Hall Of Famer Katsumi Shiraishi.  The kanji for Shiraishi's name is 白石 which looks really close to what's on the card.  Shiraishi spent most of his career with the Giants and Carp so it's kind of cool to get a card of him with a different, much more obscure team.

Here's the other card:

This is a team photo of the Nankai Hawks (which is what the text on the bottom says).  The seller said that this card is from 1950 however I'm not convinced of that.  The photo is washed out so it's very difficult to make out any detail about the uniforms but they appear to have a "yoke" and the second player from the left in both the top and bottom row appear to have block letting across the front of their uniforms.  This may be wishful thinking on my part, but I think they might actually be wearing "Great Ring" uniforms, the name the team went by in 1946.  This would be similar to the situation with the Pacific card where the photo is from 1946 but the name on the card is the one the team went by in 1947.  Alternatively it could be the uniform that the Hawks wore between 1947 and 1949 although since the hats appear to be light colored with dark bills, I'm still leaning towards the "Golden Ring" theory.