Mark Teixeira dons pinstripes (photos)

January 7, 8:24 AMNew York Yankees ExaminerPete Sabatini

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On Tuesday afternoon Mark Teixeira pulled on the jersey that he will wear for the next eight years.  It suits him.

For the whole rundown on the press conference check out here at Yankees.com and here at The Boston Globe, of all places, but a key piece of insight came when Teixeira was telling how he and wife Leigh came to his final decision to sign with the Yankees.

"I said to Leigh, 'Everything's equal. Where would you want to play?'" Teixeira said. "Finally, she broke down and said, 'I want you to be a Yankee.' That's what did it for me."

Turns out, similar to CC Sabathia here, it came down to his wife’s buy-in to come to New York. 

Also, check out Jay Trucker, Orioles Examiner, here for a Baltimore view on losing their hometown boy to the Yanks.

New York Yankees new first baseman Mark Teixeira, right, smiles with his wife Leigh, center, and agent Scott Boras beside him before donning his number 25 jersey during a press conference at Yankee Stadium in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi, left, smiles after putting a jersey on the Yankees new first baseman, Mark Teixeira during a news conference at Yankee Stadium in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

New York Yankees new first baseman Mark Teixeira poses with a bat inside the new Yankee Stadium in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

New York Yankees controlling owner Hal Steinbrenner, right, congratulates the Yankees new first baseman Mark Teixeira after a news conference introducing Texeira at Yankee Stadium in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. At far right is Yankees general manager Brian Cashman. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

New York Yankees new first baseman Mark Teixeira, right, signs autographs for construction workers at the new Yankee Stadium after Teixeira was introduced during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)