When he displaced Lou Gehrig, the immortal “Iron Horse,” as the game’s all-time iron man, Cal Ripken Jr. set a bar so ridiculously high it likely never will be scaled. Ripken’s 2,632 consecutive games played are more than twice as many as any player in history, with the exception of Gehrig and his seemingly unapproachable 2,130. Everett Scott (1,307), Steve Garvey (1,207) and Miguel Tejada (1,152) complete the top five.