Tom Oschip competed at Cooperstown Dreams Park with the Ohio Indians (MI) organization in 1998 and 1999. Tom continued his baseball career at the high school and college levels. During his senior year at Mentor High School (Mentor, OH), the hurler was awarded conference honors as LEL Player of the Year and was named an All Ohio honorable mention.

Tom spent his first two years of college pitching at Lakeland Community College (Kirtland, OH) and his final two at Coker College (Hartsville, SC). While in college, Tom was a member of Lambda Pi Eta fraternity, Communications Honor Society, Academic All Conference, and Deans List.

Tom majored in Communications and graduated with Bachelor's Degree from Coker College in the spring of 2009. Tom was a member of Cooperstown Dreams Park's Production staff during the summer of 2009.