A list of players with streaks greater than 700 consecutive games played in Major League Baseball and Nippon Pro Baseball.
Active streaks are in italics.
Rank |
Games |
Player |
Start Date |
End Date |
MLB |
NPB
|
1 |
2632 |
Cal Ripken, Jr. |
May 30, 1982 |
September 19, 1998 |
2632 |
0
|
2 |
2215 |
Sachio Kinugasa |
October 19, 1970 |
October 22, 1987 |
0 |
2215
|
3 |
2130 |
Lou Gehrig |
June 1, 1925 |
April 30, 1939 |
2130 |
0
|
4 |
1768 |
Hideki Matsui |
August 22, 1993 |
May 10, 2006 |
518 |
1250
|
5 |
1766 |
Tomoaki Kanemoto |
July 10, 1998 |
April 15, 2011 |
0 |
1766
|
6 |
1307 |
Everett Scott |
June 20, 1916 |
May 5, 1925 |
1307 |
0
|
7 |
1246 |
Tokuji Iida |
September 12, 1948 |
May 24, 1958 |
0 |
1246
|
8 |
1213 |
Kazuo Matsui |
July 22, 1995 |
June 23, 2004 |
70 |
1143
|
9 |
1207 |
Steve Garvey |
September 3, 1975 |
July 29, 1983 |
1207 |
0
|
10 |
1180 |
Katsumi Hirosawa |
October 12, 1986 |
October 8, 1995 |
0 |
1180
|
11 |
1152 |
Miguel Tejada |
June 2, 2000 |
June 21, 2007 |
1152 |
0
|
12 |
1117 |
Billy Williams |
September 22, 1963 |
September 2, 1970 |
1117 |
0
|
13 |
1103 |
Joe Sewell |
September 13, 1922 |
April 30, 1930 |
1103 |
0
|
14 |
1014 |
Fumio Fujimura |
August 30, 1946 |
July 31, 1954 |
0 |
1014
|
15 |
895 |
Stan Musial |
April 15, 1952 |
August 23, 1957 |
895 |
0
|
16 |
894 |
Kazuhiko Ishimine |
August 14, 1988 |
July 12, 1995 |
0 |
894
|
17 |
890 |
Katsuo Ohsugi |
September 21, 1968 |
August 20, 1975 |
0 |
890
|
18 |
882 |
Hideshi Miyake |
April 11, 1956 |
September 5, 1962 |
0 |
882
|
19 |
872 |
Koji Yamamoto |
October 22, 1976 |
August 28, 1983 |
0 |
872
|
20 |
833 |
Koji Akiyama |
April 6, 1985 |
June 16, 1991 |
0 |
833
|
21 |
829 |
Eddie Yost |
April 30, 1949 |
May 11, 1955 |
829 |
0
|
22 |
822 |
Gus Suhr |
September 11, 1931 |
June 4, 1937 |
822 |
0
|
23 |
821 |
Sadayuki Tokutake |
April 9, 1961 |
April 10, 1967 |
0 |
821
|
24 |
809 |
Shinichi Etoh |
April 11, 1959 |
April 16, 1965 |
0 |
809
|
25 |
803 |
Ryuzoh Yamasaki |
October 16, 1983 |
April 28, 1990 |
0 |
803
|
26 |
798 |
Nellie Fox |
August 8, 1955 |
September 3, 1960 |
798 |
0
|
27 |
763 |
Ichiro Suzuki |
April 9, 1994 |
August 24, 1999 |
0 |
763
|
28 |
745 |
Pete Rose |
September 2, 1978 |
August 23, 1983 |
745 |
0
|
29 |
740 |
Dale Murphy |
September 26, 1981 |
July 8, 1986 |
740 |
0
|
30 |
739 |
Norihiro Komada |
October 21, 1993 |
July 16, 1999 |
0 |
739
|
30 |
739 |
Shogo Akiyama |
September 6, 2014 |
Active through 2019 |
0 |
738
|
31 |
733 |
Kazuo Horii |
April 19, 1950 |
March 24, 1956 |
0 |
733
|
32 |
730 |
Richie Ashburn |
June 7, 1950 |
April 13, 1955 |
730 |
0
|
33 |
717 |
Ernie Banks |
August 28, 1956 |
June 22, 1961 |
717 |
0
|
34 |
717 |
Junichi Kashiwabara |
August 14, 1979 |
May 9, 1985 |
0 |
717
|
35 |
708 |
Nobuyuki Hikichi |
May 18, 1952 |
August 29, 1957 |
0 |
708
|
Alexander Ramos set the record in Cuba with 1,112 games while Gerardo Sánchez holds the Mexican League record at 1,415. Cheng-Hsien Chen set the Chinese Professional Baseball League mark of 665.
Further Reading[edit]
- John Eisenberg: The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, NY, 2017. ISBN 978-0-5441-0767-0
- Marty Friedrich: The Iron Men of Baseball, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2006.
- Sarah Langs: "Consecutive games streaks since Ripken", mlb.com, September 6, 2020. [1]
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