The Major League Baseball season can be a long and grueling journey, even for players who've reached the pinnacle of the sport. It's six months of near-daily competition against the highest level of talent the game has to offer. Few players play the full 162-game slate each year, and even fewer take the field with the consistency and durability that the players atop MLB's consecutive games record book did.

A quarter century ago, Cal Ripken Jr. broke one of baseball's most unbreakable records, toppling Lou Gehrig's 2,130-game streak, which stood for 56 years, in 1995. Ripken went on to play 501 more games and set the record at a seemingly unreachable 2,632 games.

Sixteen years is long for a professional baseball career, and it'd take more than that to knock Ripken from the top of the list

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