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Tex’s message re: Jeffrey Maier
Photo credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams, Jr.
Mark Teixeira was a 16-year-old student at Mount St. Joseph High School in Baltimore – and a huge Orioles fan – when the Jeffrey Maier play happened.
Even after all these years, the Yankees first baseman still refers to it as “one of the worst calls in baseball history.”
Teixeira recalled that the day after the game, the principal came over the loudspeaker to deliver a message to students...
