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1939 MLB Doubles by Team

Every team's total, added up from its players' lines. Two-base hits

The St. Louis Cardinals led all of MLB in doubles in 1939, with 332, 41 ahead of the Cleveland Indians. The average across 29 MLB teams is 162.0.

Led all of MLB in 1939 St. Louis Cardinals 155 games
332 Doubles 41 clear of Cleveland Indians
# Team League G 2B
1 St. Louis Cardinals NL 155 332
2 Cleveland Indians AL 154 291
3 Boston Red Sox AL 152 287
4 Philadelphia Athletics AL 153 282
5 Detroit Tigers AL 155 277
6 Cincinnati Reds NL 156 269
7 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 157 265
8 Chicago Cubs NL 156 263
9 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 153 261
10 New York Yankees AL 152 259
11 Washington Senators AL 153 249
12 St. Louis Browns AL 156 242
13 Philadelphia Phillies NL 152 232
14 Chicago White Sox AL 155 220
15 New York Giants NL 151 211
16 Boston Bees NL 152 199
MLB average 162.0
17 Kansas City Monarchs NAL 60 72
18 Philadelphia Stars NN2 64 60
19 Chicago American Giants NAL 63 50
19 Newark Eagles NN2 61 50
21 Homestead Grays NN2 51 49
22 Baltimore Elite Giants NN2 47 48
23 Cleveland Bears NAL 41 37
24 Memphis Red Sox NAL 54 36
25 Toledo Crawfords NAL 19 35
26 New York Black Yankees NN2 47 34
26 St. Louis Stars NAL 45 34
28 Indianapolis ABCs/Atlanta Black Crackers NAL 8 31
29 New York Cubans NN2 31 24

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.