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1954 MLB Home Runs by Team

Every team's total, added up from its players' lines. Home runs hit

The Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants shared the lead of all of MLB in home runs in 1954, with 186. The average across 16 MLB teams is 121.1.

Led all of MLB in 1954 Brooklyn Dodgers 154 games
186 Home Runs Tied with New York Giants
# Team League G HR
1 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 154 186
1 New York Giants NL 154 186
3 Chicago Cubs NL 154 159
4 Cleveland Indians AL 156 156
5 Cincinnati Redlegs NL 154 147
6 Milwaukee Braves NL 154 139
7 New York Yankees AL 155 133
8 Boston Red Sox AL 156 123
MLB average 121.1
9 St. Louis Cardinals NL 154 119
10 Philadelphia Phillies NL 154 102
11 Chicago White Sox AL 155 94
11 Philadelphia Athletics AL 156 94
13 Detroit Tigers AL 155 90
14 Washington Senators AL 155 81
15 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 154 76
16 Baltimore Orioles AL 154 52

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.