Kao Chih-kang (Chinese: 高志綱; pinyin: Gāo Zhìngāng; Wade–Giles: Kao1 Chih4 Kang1; born 7 February 1981 in Taichung County, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese former professional baseball catcher.
After a brief amateur career in the Taiwan Cooperative Bank he was drafted by the Uni-President Lions of Chinese Professional Baseball League in early 2005 and stayed in this team to date.
Kao is widely regarded as the best Taiwanese catcher of his generation, and has been a frequent member of the Chinese Taipei national baseball team since 2001.
Kao is best known for hitting the game-winning RBI in the Chinese Taipei versus South Korea match in the 2003 Asian Baseball Championship series.
[2] In November 2011, Kao was appointed as the representative of players by the IBAF Asia Department.