List of Major League Baseball career games played leaders

Pete Rose, the all-time leader in games played

This is the list of the top 100 Major League Baseball players in career games played.

Ty Cobb was the first player to reach 3,000 games played. Cobb's record of 3,035 games played lasted for 46 seasons, until Hank Aaron would break the record. Aaron's record was subsequently broken by Carl Yastrzemski in 1983, and finally broken the following season by Pete Rose, who currently holds the record for most games played at 3,562. Rickey Henderson, Eddie Murray, Stan Musial, and Cal Ripken, Jr. are the only other players to play in over 3,000 career games.

Key

Rank	Rank amongst leaders in career games played. A blank field indicates a tie.
Player (2016 Gs)	Number of games played during the 2016 Major League Baseball season.
G	Total career games played.
*	denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Bold	denotes active player.[lower-alpha 1]

List

Cal Ripken, Jr. played in 3,001 career games, including a record streak of 2,632 consecutive

• Stats updated as of the 2016 season.

Rank	Player (2016 Gs)	G
1	Pete Rose	3,562
2	Carl Yastrzemski *	3,308
3	Hank Aaron *	3,298
4	Rickey Henderson *	3,081
5	Ty Cobb *	3,035
6	Eddie Murray *	3,026
	Stan Musial *	3,026
8	Cal Ripken, Jr. *	3,001
9	Willie Mays *	2,992
10	Barry Bonds	2,986
11	Dave Winfield *	2,973
12	Omar Vizquel	2,968
13	Rusty Staub	2,951
14	Brooks Robinson *	2,896
15	Robin Yount *	2,856
16	Craig Biggio *	2,850
17	Al Kaline *	2,834
18	Rafael Palmeiro	2,831
19	Harold Baines	2,830
20	Eddie Collins *	2,826
21	Reggie Jackson *	2,820
22	Frank Robinson *	2,808
23	Honus Wagner *	2,792
24	Tris Speaker *	2,789
25	Alex Rodriguez (65)	2,784
26	Tony Pérez *	2,777
27	Derek Jeter	2,747
28	Mel Ott *	2,730
29	Adrián Beltré (153)	2,720
30	George Brett *	2,707
31	Graig Nettles	2,700
32	Darrell Evans	2,687
33	Paul Molitor *	2,683
34	Ken Griffey, Jr. *	2,671
35	Rabbit Maranville *	2,670
36	Joe Morgan *	2,649
37	Andre Dawson *	2,627
38	Lou Brock *	2,616
39	Dwight Evans	2,606
40	Luis Aparicio *	2,599
41	Luis Gonzalez	2,591
42	Willie McCovey *	2,588
43	Steve Finley	2,583
44	Gary Sheffield	2,576
45	Ozzie Smith *	2,573
46	Paul Waner *	2,549
47	Iván Rodríguez	2,543
	Jim Thome	2,543
49	Ernie Banks *	2,528
50	Julio Franco	2,527

Rank	Player (2016 Gs)	G
51	Cap Anson *	2,524
52	Bill Buckner	2,517
	Sam Crawford *	2,517
54	Gary Gaetti	2,507
55	Babe Ruth *	2,503
56	Tim Raines	2,502
57	Ichiro Suzuki (143)	2,500
58	Carlton Fisk *	2,499
	Chipper Jones	2,499
60	Johnny Damon	2,490
61	Dave Concepción	2,488
	Billy Williams *	2,488
63	Nap Lajoie *	2,480
64	Max Carey *	2,476
65	Rod Carew *	2,469
	Vada Pinson	2,469
67	Dave Parker	2,466
68	Fred McGriff	2,460
69	Carlos Beltrán (151)	2,457
70	Ted Simmons	2,456
71	Bill Dahlen	2,444
72	Ron Fairly	2,442
73	Wade Boggs *	2,440
	Tony Gwynn *	2,440
75	Chili Davis	2,436
76	Harmon Killebrew *	2,435
77	Roberto Clemente *	2,433
78	Willie Davis	2,429
79	Albert Pujols (152)	2,426
80	Bobby Abreu	2,425
81	Luke Appling *	2,422
82	Zack Wheat *	2,410
83	Mickey Vernon	2,409
84	David Ortiz	2,408
85	Buddy Bell	2,405
86	Sam Rice *	2,404
	Mike Schmidt *	2,404
88	Mickey Mantle *	2,401
89	Eddie Mathews *	2,391
90	Lou Whitaker	2,390
91	Jake Beckley *	2,389
92	Bobby Wallace *	2,383
93	Enos Slaughter *	2,380
94	Roberto Alomar *	2,379
95	George Davis *	2,372
	Torii Hunter	2,372
97	Al Oliver	2,368
98	Nellie Fox *	2,367
99	Willie Stargell *	2,360
100	Sammy Sosa	2,354

Notes

1. A player is considered inactive if he has announced his retirement or not played for a full season.

References

• Baseball-Reference.com