Mark Charles Teixeira is an American former baseball player who retired in 2016. For 14 seasons, this first baseman was associated with Major League Baseball (MLB) and played for the Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and New York Yankees. Brought up in a baseball-crazy family, he was dressed in baseball uniforms by his parents when he was just a toddler! By the age of four, he could confidently hit, field, and throw, and by five, he already knew that he would be a major baseball player.Teixeira started playing baseball at Georgia Techcollege, where he won the Dick Howser Trophy for being the player of the year. One of the great switch hitters in MLB’s history, he started playing professional baseball with the Texas Rangers. Displaying his brilliant performance, he won the 27th World Series Championship in 2009. He won the Gold Glove Awards five times, and the Silver Slugger Awards thrice. One of the first five switch hitters of MLB to reach 400 home runs, Teixeira is a three-time All-Star and has earned the all-time major league record for most games with a home run from both sides of the plate. Unfortunately, several injuries and health problems started plaguing him from 2012 and eventually forced him to retire at the end of the 2016 season.
