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1875 MLB Plate Appearances by Team

Every team's total, added up from its players' lines. Trips to the plate

The Boston Red Stockings led all of MLB in plate appearances in 1875, with 3,548, 158 ahead of the Hartford Dark Blues. The average across 13 MLB teams is 2,083.2.

Led all of MLB in 1875 Boston Red Stockings 82 games
3,548 Plate Appearances 158 clear of Hartford Dark Blues
# Team League G PA
1 Boston Red Stockings NA 82 3,548
2 Hartford Dark Blues NA 86 3,390
3 Philadelphia Athletics NA 77 3,288
4 Philadelphia Whites NA 70 2,742
5 Chicago White Stockings NA 69 2,706
5 St. Louis Brown Stockings NA 70 2,706
7 New York Mutuals NA 71 2,704
MLB average 2,083.2
8 New Haven Elm Citys NA 47 1,728
9 Brooklyn Atlantics NA 44 1,570
10 Washington Nationals NA 28 1,010
11 St. Louis Red Stockings NA 19 700
12 Philadelphia Centennials NA 14 540
13 Keokuk Westerns NA 13 450

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.