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1939 MLB Extra-Base Hits by Team

Every team's total, added up from its players' lines. Doubles plus triples plus home runs

The St. Louis Cardinals led all of MLB in extra-base hits in 1939, with 492, 12 ahead of the New York Yankees. The average across 29 MLB teams is 256.0.

Led all of MLB in 1939 St. Louis Cardinals 155 games
492 Extra-Base Hits 12 clear of New York Yankees
# Team League G XBH
1 St. Louis Cardinals NL 155 492
2 New York Yankees AL 152 480
3 Boston Red Sox AL 152 468
3 Detroit Tigers AL 155 468
5 Cleveland Indians AL 154 455
6 Philadelphia Athletics AL 153 435
7 Cincinnati Reds NL 156 427
8 Chicago Cubs NL 156 416
9 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 157 400
10 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 153 384
11 St. Louis Browns AL 156 383
12 Washington Senators AL 153 372
13 New York Giants NL 151 365
14 Chicago White Sox AL 155 340
15 Philadelphia Phillies NL 152 321
16 Boston Bees NL 152 294
MLB average 256.0
17 Kansas City Monarchs NAL 60 119
18 Homestead Grays NN2 51 111
19 Newark Eagles NN2 61 106
20 Philadelphia Stars NN2 64 96
21 Chicago American Giants NAL 63 84
22 Baltimore Elite Giants NN2 47 70
23 St. Louis Stars NAL 45 57
24 New York Black Yankees NN2 47 52
25 Indianapolis ABCs/Atlanta Black Crackers NAL 8 51
26 Memphis Red Sox NAL 54 50
27 Cleveland Bears NAL 41 48
28 Toledo Crawfords NAL 19 47
29 New York Cubans NN2 31 32

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.