From BR Bullpen
A list of players with the 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
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| 1 | 2632 | Cal Ripken, Jr. | May 30, 1982 | September 19, 1998 | 2632 | 0
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| 2 | 2215 | Sachio Kinugasa | October 19, 1970 | October 22, 1987 | 0 | 2215
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| 3 | 2130 | Lou Gehrig | June 1, 1925 | April 30, 1939 | 2130 | 0
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| 4 | 1768 | Hideki Matsui | August 22, 1993 | May 10, 2006 | 518 | 1250
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| 5 | 1331 | Tomoaki Kanemoto | July 10, 1998 | Through 2007 | 0 | 1331
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| 6 | 1307 | Everett Scott | June 20, 1916 | May 5, 1925 | 1307 | 0
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| 7 | 1246 | Tokuji Iida | September 12, 1948 | May 24, 1958 | 0 | 1246
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| 8 | 1213 | Kazuo Matsui | July 22, 1995 | June 23, 2004 | 70 | 1143
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| 9 | 1207 | Steve Garvey | September 3, 1975 | July 29, 1983 | 1207 | 0
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| 10 | 1180 | Katsumi Hirosawa | October 12, 1986 | October 8, 1995 | 0 | 1180
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| 11 | 1152 | Miguel Tejada | June 2, 2000 | June 21, 2007 | 1152 | 0
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| 12 | 1117 | Billy Williams | September 22, 1963 | September 2, 1970 | 1117 | 0
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| 13 | 1103 | Joe Sewell | September 13, 1922 | April 30, 1930 | 1103 | 0
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| 14 | 1014 | Fumio Fujimura | August 30, 1946 | July 31, 1954 | 0 | 1014
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| 15 | 895 | Stan Musial | April 15, 1952 | August 23, 1957 | 895 | 0
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| 16 | 894 | Kazuhiko Ishimine | August 14, 1988 | July 12, 1995 | 0 | 894
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| 17 | 890 | Katsuo Ohsugi | September 21, 1968 | August 20, 1975 | 0 | 890
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| 18 | 882 | Hideshi Miyake | April 11, 1956 | September 5, 1962 | 0 | 882
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| 19 | 872 | Koji Yamamoto | October 22, 1976 | August 28, 1983 | 0 | 872
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| 20 | 833 | Koji Akiyama | April 6, 1985 | June 16, 1991 | 0 | 833
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| 21 | 829 | Eddie Yost | April 30, 1949 | May 11, 1955 | 829 | 0
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| 22 | 822 | Gus Suhr | September 11, 1931 | June 4, 1937 | 822 | 0
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| 23 | 821 | Sadayuki Tokutate | April 9, 1961 | April 10, 1967 | 0 | 821
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| 24 | 809 | Shinichi Etoh | April 11, 1959 | April 16, 1965 | 0 | 809
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| 25 | 803 | Ryuzoh Yamasaki | October 16, 1983 | April 28, 1990 | 0 | 803
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| 26 | 798 | Nellie Fox | August 8, 1955 | September 3, 1960 | 798 | 0
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| 27 | 763 | Ichiro Suzuki | April 9, 1994 | August 24, 1999 | 0 | 763
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| 28 | 745 | Pete Rose | September 2, 1978 | August 23, 1983 | 745 | 0
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| 29 | 740 | Dale Murphy | September 26, 1981 | July 8, 1986 | 740 | 0
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| 30 | 739 | Norihiro Komada | October 21, 1993 | July 16, 1999 | 0 | 739
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| 31 | 733 | Kazuo Horii | April 19, 1950 | March 24, 1956 | 0 | 733
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| 32 | 730 | Richie Ashburn | June 7, 1950 | April 13, 1955 | 730 | 0
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| 33 | 717 | Ernie Banks | August 28, 1956 | June 22, 1961 | 717 | 0
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| 34 | 717 | Jyunichi Kashiwabara | August 14, 1979 | May 9, 1985 | 0 | 717
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| 35 | 708 | Nobuyuki Hikichi | May 18, 1952 | August 29, 1957 | 0 | 708
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