Basic Info:
Full Name: Mark Charles Teixeira
D.O.B: April 11, 1980
Age: 30
Birthplace: Annapolis, MD
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb
Bats: Switch
Throws: Right
College: Georgia Tech
MLB Debut: April 1, 2003 (Texas Rangers)
Current Position: 1st Base
Favorite Player: Don Mattingly
Bio (credit to MLB.com)
Full name is Mark Charles Teixeira... he and his wife, Leigh, have a son, Jack Gordan (3) and daughter Addison Leigh (2)... met his wife, an industrial-design Major, as a freshman at Georgia Tech... signed by Zackary Hoyrst (Rangers)... hobbies include hunting and golf... his favorite team growing up was the Baltimore Orioles and his favorite player was Don Mattingly... is a natural right-handed hitter... decided to become a dedicated switch hitter at the age of 13... is of Portugese decent... his father, John, is a former Navy pilot who played high school baseball with Bucky Dent... his uncle, Pete, played in the Braves minor league system...In 2006, Mark and his wife established the Mark Teixeira Charitable Fund that supported six $5,000 scholarships at three high schools in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area... in 2007, he increased the number of scholarships to 12... following the 2007 season, he held the first Tex's Holiday Hold 'Em poker tournament that raised over $55,000 for his foundation... other community groups that have been helped by the Teixeiras include Cook Children's Medical Center, the Arlington Boys & Girls Club and the Arlington Police Department, where they worked to start a local Police Athletic League (PAL) for the youth of Arlington... won the 2006 "Harold McKinney Good Guy Award" as voted on by the Dallas/Ft. Worth chapter of the BBWAA. 4 Teamed up with Coppertone's "Help Strike Out Sun Damage" program in 2009 as a spokesman for the National Foundation for Cancer Research...Batted .409 (216-528) with 36HR and 165RBI in 140 games in three seasons at Georgia Tech... became just the second player in Atlantic Coast Conference history to have a career .400 average, joining Wake Forest's Bill Merrifield (.400 from 1981-83)... batted .419 (26-for-62) with 5HR and 20RBI in 16 games for the Yellow Jackets as a senior in 2001... fractured right ankle in season's seventh game on 2/23 vs. Elon... won the Dick Howser Trophy as the "National Collegiate Player of the Year" in 2000, hitting .427 (103-for-241) with 18HR and 80RBI in 66 games... selected as "National Player of the Year" by Baseball America and the Sporting News, was the ACC "Player of the Year" and was a consensus first-team All-American... led the ACC in batting average, runs (school-record 104), homers, walks (67), slugging percentage (.772) and on-base percentage (.547)... was a three-time ACC "Player of the Week"... named to all-tournament team in NCAA regional in Atlanta with 2HR and 7RBI... hit .387 (87-for-225) with 13HR and 65RBI in 58 games in 1999... named ACC Rookie of the Year and was first-team all-conference selection... picked as "National Freshman of the Year" by Collegiate Baseball... set Georgia Tech freshman records for hits and RBI and tied the doubles mark (18)... led Tech in batting, becoming the first freshman to do so since 1978... spent summer of 2000 with USA Baseball National Team, leading the club in batting (.385), runs (26), hits (46), RBI (23) and total bases (70)... hit .289 with 7HR and 26RBI for Orleans in the Cape Cod League in the summer of 1999... earned team MVP in league All-Star Game and received Robert A. McNeese Award as Cape League's most outstanding pro prospect...Makes an annual donation to the Georgia Tech baseball scholarship, including a $500,000 pledge in February 2009...Played baseball, basketball and soccer at Mt. St. Joseph's High School in Baltimore (graduated 1998)... set Maryland state records for career homers (29), RBI (105) and runs (128)... in 1998, earned first-team High School All-American honors from Baseball America, USA Today/Sports Weekly, Collegiate Baseball, and the American Baseball Coaches Association, hitting .548 with 12 homers and 36 RBI... was named Maryland "Player of the Year" in 1997 and 1998... also played in the Babe Ruth League and American Legion programs... endowed a scholarship at Mt. St. Joseph in the name of his friend Nick Libertore who was killed in a car accident while to two were in school.
Bio (credit to Wikipedia)
Mark Charles Teixeira (born April 11, 1980, in Annapolis, Maryland), also known as "Tex" is an American Major League Baseball player for the New York Yankees. Mostly a first baseman, he has also played third base and in the outfield. He played college baseball at Georgia Tech, where in 2001 he won the Dick Howser Trophy as the national collegiate baseball player of the year.
Teixeira was drafted in 2001 by the Texas Rangers, and made his MLB debut for them in 2003. In mid-2007 he was traded to the Atlanta Braves, and traded again in mid-2008 to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. In December 2008, he agreed to a contract with the New York Yankees. Teixeira has won four Gold Glove Awards and three Silver Slugger Awards.
