Towards the top of the list is Rafael Palmeiro, with 2,831 games played in 20 major league seasons, primarily split between the Baltimore Orioles and also the Texas Rangers. Palmeiro?s 569 career home runs are 12th best all-time.
Second comes Ken Griffey, Jr., who participated in 2,671 games in his 22 seasons through 2010. Like Palmeiro, Griffey has spent the majority of his career with two teams: The Cincinnati Reds and Seattle Mariners. Griffey?s 630 career dingers rank him fifth on the all-time list.
Andre Dawson literally third-most games with no World Series appearance, at 2,627 over 21 years. "Hawk" spent 11 seasons using the Montreal Expos before moving the Chicago Cubs, where he'd an amazing 1987 season (49 homers and 137 RBIs) that earned him National League MVP honors. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010.
Another Hall of Famer, Ernie Banks, comes in at number four on our list, playing by 50 percent,528 games in 19 seasons, all of them with the Cubs. A two-time NL MVP in 1958 and 1959, "Mr. Cub" led the league home based runs twice and RBIs twice. He finished his career with 512 homers, 21st in history.
Likely the least-known player in our top 5 is Julio Franco, who was within the lineup for 2,527 games in the 23-year career without ever playing in a World Series game. Franco played for eight different major league teams, using the longest stints in Atlanta, Cleveland and Texas. Although his stats are not as impressive because the other players right here, he was nevertheless a solid contributor, having a career .298 batting average. Franco won the American League batting crown with Texas in 1991, hitting .341, and was still being an invaluable bench player through the end of his career in the age of 48 in 2007.Paragraph. 单击此处进行编辑.