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1964 MLB Batting Average by Team

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

The Milwaukee Braves and the St. Louis Cardinals shared the lead of all of MLB in batting average in 1964, with .272. The average across 20 MLB teams is .250.

Led all of MLB in 1964 Milwaukee Braves 162 games
.272 Batting Average Tied with St. Louis Cardinals
# Team League G AVG
1 Milwaukee Braves NL 162 .272
1 St. Louis Cardinals NL 162 .272
3 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 162 .264
4 Boston Red Sox AL 162 .259
5 Philadelphia Phillies NL 162 .258
6 Detroit Tigers AL 163 .253
7 New York Yankees AL 164 .253
8 Minnesota Twins AL 163 .252
9 Chicago Cubs NL 162 .251
MLB average .250
10 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 164 .250
11 Cincinnati Reds NL 163 .249
12 Baltimore Orioles AL 163 .248
13 Cleveland Indians AL 164 .247
14 Chicago White Sox AL 162 .247
15 New York Mets NL 163 .247
16 San Francisco Giants NL 162 .246
17 Los Angeles Angels AL 162 .242
18 Kansas City Athletics AL 163 .239
19 Washington Senators AL 162 .231
20 Houston Colt .45's NL 162 .229

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.