Teixeira comes full circle in return to Atlanta

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Victor Menocal was there for perhaps the worst moment of Mark Teixeira's baseball life. "He was playing third. I was playing short. Matthew Boggs was playing left," Menocal recalled. "The three of us were running for a fly ball in shallow left. I called for the ball, called them off, and Mark's spike got caught in the grass. His ankle just rolled over. It was loud, the way it cracked. It was gross, hearing it. I still remember that sound." That was Feb. 23, 2001, six games into Teixeira's last season on the Georgia Tech baseball team, his last season -- until now -- playing baseball in Atlanta.

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