Sam Taub

Sam Taub (September 10, 1886 – July 10, 1979) was a journalist and radio broadcaster who is best known for his work covering boxing.

Taub was Jewish, and was born on New York's Lower East Side and raised on Mott Street in Chinatown. He attended PS8 on Mott Street, and learned to type at night school at DeWitt Clinton High School. Typing let him to his first job as stenographer and typist for the Morning Telegraph. At that paper, Bat Masterson made Taub his assistant. Masterson died at the paper's offices in Taub's arms; Taub succeeded him as sports editor.

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-Max Baer bout.

Taub also worked as a boxing journalist. His contributions were featured in The Ring from the 1920s until his death in the 1970s, in a column called "Up And Down Old Broadway". He is an inductee of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Taub received the Pillar of Achievement from the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.