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1940 MLB Batting Average by Team

Every team's total, added up from its players' lines. Hits per at bat

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The Newark Eagles led all of MLB in batting average in 1940, with .301, .012 ahead of the Homestead Grays. The average across 29 MLB teams is .263.

AVGHRRBIHRSBOPSOBPSLG2B3BXBHTBBBSOPAAB
Led all of MLB in 1940 Newark Eagles 42 games
.301 Batting Average .012 clear of Homestead Grays
# Team League G AVG
1 Newark Eagles NN2 42 .301
2 Homestead Grays NN2 41 .289
3 Kansas City Monarchs NAL 52 .287
4 Detroit Tigers AL 155 .286
5 Boston Red Sox AL 154 .286
6 Baltimore Elite Giants NN2 39 .279
7 Chicago White Sox AL 155 .278
8 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 156 .276
9 St. Louis Cardinals NL 156 .275
10 Philadelphia Stars NN2 47 .275
11 Washington Senators AL 154 .271
12 Chicago Cubs NL 154 .267
13 New York Giants NL 152 .267
14 Cincinnati Reds NL 155 .266
15 Cleveland Indians AL 155 .265
16 New York Black Yankees NN2 28 .264
MLB average .263
17 St. Louis Browns AL 156 .263
18 Philadelphia Athletics AL 154 .262
19 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 156 .260
20 New York Yankees AL 155 .259
21 Boston Bees NL 152 .256
22 New York Cubans NN2 29 .255
23 St. Louis-New Orleans Stars NAL 50 .255
24 Birmingham Black Barons NAL 45 .255
25 Memphis Red Sox NAL 57 .247
26 Philadelphia Phillies NL 153 .239
27 Chicago American Giants NAL 50 .232
28 Cleveland Bears NAL 37 .221
29 Toledo-Indianapolis Crawfords NAL 31 .197

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.