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Posted By: Brian Hodes

Both Nolan Ryan and Cap Anson played major league ball (incl. National Association 1871-1875) for 27 straight seasons. Even the players that skipped years (or played a game or two on a lark when they were 50+ like O'Rourke, Brouthers and Minoso still don't reach 27 if we give them credit for a whole year for their cameos.

I am sure some Negro League players (Charleston, to be sure) top this but I would leave all the questions of that to people far more knowledgeable than I in that area (e.g. Ryan C.).
By the way this site is sort of an on-line Baseball Encyclopedia/Total Baseball
(not only with standard stats but with some of the newfangled stats that sabremetricians dreamed up like "Runs Created") :
http://www.baseball-reference.com