"Brooklyn Dodgers" Sam Nahem Hand Signed 3X5 Card Signature Auctions LOA

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Up for auction the "Brooklyn Dodgers" Sam Nahem Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Samuel Ralph "Subway Sam" Nahem
(October 19, 1915 – April 19, 2004) was a pitcher for the
Brooklyn Dodgers
(1938),
St. Louis Cardinals
(1941), and
Philadelphia Phillies
(1942 and 1948). His professional baseball playing was interrupted by military service (1942–46) with the
United States Army
in the
European Theater of Operations
during World War II.
Nahem was born in New York City, and was
Jewish
. His parents Jacob and Esther Nahem had immigrated from
Aleppo
,
Syria
, to the United States, firstly to the
Lower East Side
in Manhattan where he was initially raised, and then moved to Brooklyn. His first language was Arabic, as his family were Arabic-speaking
Syrian Jews
, and he and his seven siblings grew up on
Ocean Parkway
and in the
Bensonhurst
section of Brooklyn. His father, who owned an import-export business, later drowned when the British passenger steamship
SS
Vestris
sank off the coast of Virginia on November 12, 1928. Nahem also was the uncle of Major League Baseball
outfielder
Al Silvera
, who was the son of his sister Vicky. He rebelled against
Hebrew school
when he was 13 years old. He later went to
New Utrecht High School
, where he was unable to make the baseball team. Nahem then attended
Brooklyn College
, where he pitched for the school's baseball team and played
quarterback
and
fullback
for its football team, graduating in 1935. While in the college he also started participating in
Communist Party
activities. He quit the Communist Party in the mid-1950s after the Soviet Union invaded Hungary.
He and his wife Elsie, whom he met after World War II and who died in 1974, had three children, Ivan, Joanne, and Andrew.