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1964 NL 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 the NL in batting average in 1964, with .272. The average across 10 NL teams is .254.

Led the NL in 1964 Milwaukee Braves 162 games
.272 Batting Average Tied with St. Louis Cardinals
# Team G AVG
1 Milwaukee Braves 162 .272
1 St. Louis Cardinals 162 .272
3 Pittsburgh Pirates 162 .264
4 Philadelphia Phillies 162 .258
NL average .254
5 Chicago Cubs 162 .251
6 Los Angeles Dodgers 164 .250
7 Cincinnati Reds 163 .249
8 New York Mets 163 .247
9 San Francisco Giants 162 .246
10 Houston Colt .45's 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.