Over 400 home runs, a Broadway cameo, a business degree finished two decades late, and now a congressional ballot with a presidential endorsement. Mark Teixeira’s resume looks chaotic, but this deep dive finds the connecting thread: a lifelong understanding of leverage and calculated risk.

We trace how a Maryland kid became one of baseball’s most elite switch-hitters and how a career of high-stakes bets set the stage for his 2026 run for Congress in Texas.

• Refusing to sign after the draft to attend Georgia Tech and build leverage
• Weaponizing agent Scott Boras to land a major league contract out of the draft
• Setting the single-season switch-hitter RBI record
• His 2009 peak and World Series title with the Yankees
• Building a media and real estate toolkit that translated into politics