Nothing like having them in hand, of course, but I'd bet my house these are fakes. Like most such attempts, there's a uniform yellowing/browning that comes from the baking or chemicals or whatever they do to try to make them look old that just doesn't capture the look of real old photos. It's an attempt at a sepia look, when in fact very few actual old photos have a sepia tone. I've seen many of these negro league team fakes over the years on eBay and elsewhere, but curiously when I tried to find a picture of one on Google I was unsuccessful.
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