# Sam Taub

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[[File:Sam Taub and Archie Moore 1959.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Sam Taub and [Archie Moore](/source/Archie_Moore) in 1959]]
'''Sam Taub''' (September 10, 1886 – July 10, 1979) was a journalist and radio broadcaster who is best known for his work covering [boxing](/source/boxing).

Taub was Jewish, and was born on New York's Lower East Side and raised on [Mott Street](/source/Mott_Street) in [Chinatown](/source/Chinatown).<ref name="jewishsports1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20101104224324/http://www.jewishsports.net/PillarAchievementBios/SamTaub.htm Sam Taub]. International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame</ref> He attended PS8 on Mott Street, and learned to type at night school at [DeWitt Clinton High School](/source/DeWitt_Clinton_High_School). Typing let him to his first job as stenographer and typist for the ''Morning Telegraph''. At that paper, [Bat Masterson](/source/Bat_Masterson) made Taub his assistant. Masterson died at the paper's offices in Taub's arms; Taub succeeded him as sports editor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=Sam Taub, 92, Fight Announcer; Broadcast First TV Bout in 1941 |language=en |work=The New York Times |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//arch-timesmachine-fe-prd-40741-2-575473780.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/timesmachine/1979/07/11/112116250.html?zoom=16.22 |access-date=2023-06-06}}</ref>

In 1924, Taub began his career as a radio boxing announcer. In 1939, he became the first person to announce a major fight for television when he called the [Lou Nova](/source/Lou_Nova)-[Max Baer](/source/Max_Baer_(boxer)) bout.<ref name=":0" /> He also had a radio show called ''The Hour of Champions'' which ran for twenty-four years on WHN in New York.<ref>{{Cite journal
  | last = Loubet
  | first = Nat
  | title = Last Round: Sam Taub
  | journal = The Ring
  | volume = 58| issue =  9
  | page = 96
  | date = October 1979
  }}</ref>

Taub also worked as a boxing journalist. His contributions were featured in ''[The Ring](/source/The_Ring_(magazine))'' from the 1920s until his death in the 1970s, in a column called "Up And Down Old Broadway".<ref name=":0" /> He was a charter member of the [Boxing Writers Association](/source/Boxing_Writers_Association_of_America) founded in 1925.<ref name=":0" />

Among the awards Taub received was the James J. Walker Award (now the [Barney Nagler Award](/source/Barney_Nagler_Award)) for "Long and Meritorious Service to Boxing" from the [Boxing Writers Association of America](/source/Boxing_Writers_Association_of_America). That same organization created the "[Sam Taub Award](/source/Sam_Taub_Award)" for excellence in broadcasting journalism in 1978.<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Roberts
 | first = James and Alexander Skutt
 | title = The Boxing Register, 1st ed.
 | publisher = McBooks Press
 | year = 1997
 | location = Ithaca, NY
 | page = 435
 | isbn = 0-935526-23-4}}</ref> He is an inductee of the [International Boxing Hall of Fame](/source/International_Boxing_Hall_of_Fame). Taub received the Pillar of Achievement from the [International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame](/source/International_Jewish_Sports_Hall_of_Fame).<ref name="jewishsports1"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071012043417/http://ibhof.com/taub.htm International Boxing Hall of Fame Biography] 

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Category:1886 births
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Category:American sports commentators
Category:Boxing commentators
Category:International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees
Category:Jewish American journalists
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