Why are Cal Ripken, Jr. & Willie Mays ranked so highly? Besides being two of the best players in Major League history each holds their respective league record for most consecutive seasons played where they appeared in a minimum of one-hundred fifty games.
Did you know that Pete Rose played twenty-four (24) Major League seasons and during his first consecutive twenty-three (23) seasons he appeared in at least one hundred games each year?
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