List of Major League Baseball career games played as a first baseman leaders

Eddie Murray, the all-time leader in games played as a first baseman.

Games played (most often abbreviated as G or GP) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated (in any capacity); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested. In baseball, the statistic applies also to players who, prior to a game, are included on a starting lineup card or are announced as ex ante substitutes, whether or not they play,^[1] although, in Major League Baseball, the application of this statistic does not extend to consecutive games played streaks. A starting pitcher, then, may be credited with a game played even as he is not credited with a game started or an inning pitched.

First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a baserunner in order to score a run for that player's team. A first baseman is the player on the team playing defense who fields the area nearest first base, and is responsible for the majority of plays made at that base.

Eddie Murray^[2][3][4] is all-time leader in career games as a first baseman, playing 2,413 games at the position in his career.^[5] Only twenty-one different first baseman played over 2,000 games at first base during their careers.^[6]

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Albert Pujols, the active leader in games played as a first baseman and 20th all-time

• Stats updated as of the end of the 2021 season.

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• "Career Leaders & Records for Def. Games as 1B". Baseball-Reference.com.