the japanese baseball league played a 119-game schedule in 1947. that year, baseball personality sōtaro suzuki proposed that jbl teams should have pet names like the yomiuri giants', whose pet name was "kyojin", and names such as the osaka tigers' alias "mouko" ("fierce tiger"), the revived tokyo senators' "seito" ("bluestockings") and the pacific's "taihei" ("tranquility") began to be used by the press. however, some teams rejected the use of these pet names, so they were never fully adopted. the 1948 season had a 140-game schedule, and the 1949 season had a 134-game schedule.