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.\n', '

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. \n', '

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.\n', '

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