Jeff Tackett

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1965)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Jeff Tackett

|image=1988 Charlotte Knights - Jeff Tackett (cropped).jpg

|width=175

|caption=Tackett with the Charlotte Knights {{circa}} 1988

|position=Catcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1965|12|1}}

|birth_place=Fresno, California, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 11

|debutyear=1991

|debutteam=Baltimore Orioles

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=August 2

|finalyear=1994

|finalteam=Baltimore Orioles

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.217

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=7

|stat3label=Runs Batted In

|stat3value=42

|teams=

• Baltimore Orioles ({{mlby|1991}}–{{mlby|1994}})

}}

Jeffrey Wilson Tackett (born December 1, 1965) is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Baltimore Orioles from 1991 to 1994. A career .217 hitter, Tackett was more renowned for his defensive skills behind the plate than for his hitting.{{Citation needed|date=August 2015}} He also made cameos as himself in the films Bob Roberts and Dave, the latter he caught the ceremonial first pitch thrown by the president.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0846221/ Internet Movie Database - Jeff Tackett]

He went to Dos Caminos grade school and Los Altos Middle School, and was a 1984 graduate of Adolfo Camarillo High School in Camarillo, California, the school at which his father Terry became the principal.

Tackett is one of a number of baseball players on the list of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their final major league at bat.