WASHINGTON—Former baseball star and World Series champion Mark Teixeira announced on Aug. 28 that he is running for Congress.
Teixeira is running as a Republican in Texas’s 21st Congressional District.
World Series Champion Mark Teixeira Announces Bid for Congress in Texas
Teixeira mostly played for the New York Yankees during 14 seasons in Major League Baseball.
New York Yankees' Mark Teixeira follows through on a solo home run against the Boston Red Sox during the fifth inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston on Aug. 2, 2014. Winslow Townson/AP
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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