{"id":102725,"date":"2025-08-28T19:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102725\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:43:16","slug":"three-time-mlb-all-star-and-world-series-champion-opens-congressional-bid-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102725\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-Time MLB All-Star and World Series Champion Opens Congressional Bid in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_8edefxwc8\">Three-time MLB All-Star and 2008 World Series champion Mark Teixeira is launching a political career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_2hvj8gk4w\">The former baseball star who helped the New York Yankees capture the 2008 World Series title is running as a Republican in Texas&#8217; 21st Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 45-year-old&#8217;s bid is to replace the seat vacated by Congressman Chip Roy, who announced that he will not be seeking re-election. Roy will be running for the state&#8217;s attorney general position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_r7jntazw7\">&#8220;As a proud Texan and lifelong conservative who loves our country, I&#8217;m ready to fight for the principles that make Texas strong and America exceptional,&#8221; Teixeira <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/teixeiramark25\/status\/1961080787584897174\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said in a statement<\/a>. &#8220;&#8230;I&#8217;m running to ensure District 21 remains prosperous and free for generations to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_gfett8dmp\">Teixeira played 14 seasons in the major leagues and was a career .268 hitter with 409 home runs and 1,298 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-time MLB All-Star and 2008 World Series champion Mark Teixeira is launching a political career. The former baseball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-102725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}