Daily quiz

1939 MLB At Bats by Team

Every team's total, added up from its players' lines. Official at bats

The St. Louis Cardinals led all of MLB in at bats in 1939, with 5,447, 25 ahead of the St. Louis Browns. The average across 29 MLB teams is 3,415.1.

Led all of MLB in 1939 St. Louis Cardinals 155 games
5,447 At Bats 25 clear of St. Louis Browns
# Team League G AB
1 St. Louis Cardinals NL 155 5,447
2 St. Louis Browns AL 156 5,422
3 Cincinnati Reds NL 156 5,378
4 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 157 5,350
5 Washington Senators AL 153 5,334
6 Detroit Tigers AL 155 5,326
7 Cleveland Indians AL 154 5,316
8 Philadelphia Athletics AL 153 5,309
9 Boston Red Sox AL 152 5,308
10 New York Yankees AL 152 5,300
11 Chicago Cubs NL 156 5,293
12 Boston Bees NL 152 5,286
13 Chicago White Sox AL 155 5,279
14 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 153 5,269
15 Philadelphia Phillies NL 152 5,133
16 New York Giants NL 151 5,129
MLB average 3,415.1
17 Kansas City Monarchs NAL 60 1,699
18 Philadelphia Stars NN2 64 1,565
19 Chicago American Giants NAL 63 1,368
19 Newark Eagles NN2 61 1,368
21 Homestead Grays NN2 51 1,193
22 Memphis Red Sox NAL 54 1,032
23 Baltimore Elite Giants NN2 47 1,021
24 New York Black Yankees NN2 47 999
25 Cleveland Bears NAL 41 923
26 St. Louis Stars NAL 45 907
27 Indianapolis ABCs/Atlanta Black Crackers NAL 8 724
28 New York Cubans NN2 31 698
29 Toledo Crawfords NAL 19 663

A team's total is its players' numbers for the club added up, so a player traded mid-season counts for each team only what he did there. Rates such as ERA and batting average are worked out from the team's summed totals, not averaged across players.