Former Yankee And 3-Time MLB All-Star Running For Chip Roy’s Texas Seat

Former three-time All-Star first-baseman Mark Teixeira, one of the most powerful switch-hitters in MLB history who played 14 years in Major League Baseball with the Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels, and the New York Yankees while amassing a whopping 409 home runs, announced he would run for the GOP seat vacated in Texas’ 21st Congressional District by Rep. Chip Roy.

Roy announced on August 21 he would run for attorney general of Texas.

“Big news: I’m ready to go!” Teixeira wrote on X. “As a lifelong conservative who loves this country, I’m running for Congress to fight for the principles that make Texas and America great. It takes teamwork to win – I’m ready to help defend President Trump’s America First agenda, Texas families, and individual liberty.”

Big news: I’m ready to go!

As a lifelong conservative who loves this country, I’m running for Congress to fight for the principles that make Texas and America great.

It takes teamwork to win – I’m ready to help defend President Trump’s America First agenda, Texas families,… pic.twitter.com/bVb6j9qP6i

— Mark Teixeira (@teixeiramark25) August 28, 2025

Teixeira was twice a finalist for the Roberto Clemente Award, presented annually by Major League Baseball to a player who best embodies the game of baseball through extraordinary character, community involvement, and philanthropy on and off the field. He has served on the board of directors of DREAM, which uses sports and academic programs to help inner-city youth recognize their potential.

Teixeira has worked with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative-leaning think tank that has pushed for school vouchers, property tax caps, restrictions on state contracts with ESG-compliant businesses, and prison reforms. The organization has been described as the “most influential conservative think tank in the state.”

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“I am a Christian conservative, God-loving man who understood where the Northeast was going and didn’t want to raise teenagers there,” Teixeira, who moved from Grenich, Connecticut, back to Texas, said in an interview. “I loved our community in Grenich, Connecticut, great place for young kids; I wouldn’t want my kids to be teenagers, to be in high school and be in college in that area. The values that we teach at home were not being taught there, so coming back here, and having the no state income tax as a bonus. But it really was more about raising my family in a place where you can go to church and be proud of it. You can vote Republican and be proud of it. You can have conservative values and be proud of hanging a flag in your front yard or supporting police officers, supporting the military.”

“And that’s what we’ve got here, and it’s great to be back in Texas,” he concluded.