Yankees first baseman, Mark Teixeira, announced his retirement from baseball today effective at the end of the season and as you might expect, he got very emotional while speaking. “I got to live out my dream,” said Teixeira, who has hit 404 career home runs and won a World Series with the Yankees in 2009. The announcement comes as somewhat of a surprise as he had mentioned he hoped to play five more years during spring training this year.