Bio

Jack Taschner was a dominant pitcher for a UW-Oshkosh baseball program that produced a 102-19 record and won WIAC championships during each of his three years as a Titan from 1997-99.

Taschner concluded his UW-Oshkosh career with a 13-0 record, 141 strikeouts and a 2.29 earned run average in 122 innings pitched before being selected in the second round by the San Francisco Giants following his junior season in 1999.

A Racine Horlick High School graduate, Taschner was named All-WIAC First Team and NCAA Division III All-Midwest Region Second Team in 1999 after going 7-0 with a team-leading 79 strikeouts and 21 hits allowed in 53.2 inning pitched as UW-Oshkosh produced a 34-4 record.

In 1998, Taschner helped the Titans to a 41-5 record and a fifth-place finish at the NCAA World Series. He compiled a 4-0 record with 46 strikeouts in 43.2 innings pitched in 1998 and a 2-0 mark with a 2.55 earned run average in 1997.

Taschner, who was voted to the WIAC All-Centennial Baseball Team in 2012, played professionally for 12 years, appearing in 222 games as a relief pitcher across six seasons at the Major League level. Taschner, who made his Major League debut against the Cleveland Indians on June 11, 2005, pitched for the Giants from 2005-08, the Philadelphia Phillies in 2009, and both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates in 2010. He had a 2-0 record and a 1.59 earned run average in 24 appearances as a rookie in 2005. Taschner won three games and led the Giants with a career-high 67 appearances in 2008.

In the minor leagues, Taschner was selected to the California League All-Star Game in 2001 and named to the Fresno Grizzly’s All-Decade Team.

Taschner, a 2017 UW-Oshkosh graduate, lives in Neenah, where he is employed as a police officer for the City of Appleton and head baseball coach at Neenah High School. He was named 2017 Officer of the Year by the Appleton Police Department and selected as a “Top Cop” by the State of Wisconsin Attorney General for his actions on duty.

Taschner and his wife, Miriam, are the parents of Gradin, Mirella, Reed and Teagan.