While a member of the New York Yankees, Mark Teixeira just wanted to rock…and now he can.
During his eight seasons in pinstripes, the retiring All-Star used “I Wanna Rock” by Twisted Sister as his walk up music. Friday night, before the team’s game against the Baltimore Orioles, the band was on hand to present “Tex” with a signed guitar.
“I knew they had been following my career since ’09, when I was kind of playing their song every at-bat,” Teixeira said. “They sent me a cymbal signed, just kind of sent it to the stadium, so I knew they were following me. This is unexpected. I work out to their music sometimes in the offseason. I told them, ‘Thank you for making that gesture.’ They didn’t have to do that, and it meant a lot.”
An inscription on the black guitar read, “Tex — We know You Wanna Rock, and you rocked the baseball world!” and in case you were wondering, no, Teixeira does not play the guitar.
Yet.
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