Mark Teixeira — American Athlete born on April 11, 1980,

Mark Charles Teixeira is an American Major League Baseball first baseman for the New York Yankees. Before playing in the MLB, 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... (wikipedia)

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.
I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.
I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.
Education is very important to me, as is helping children.
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.