found: The Baseball magazine.The best of baseball, 1956.
found: Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Sept. 8, 2008(Sidney Offit; b. Oct. 13, 1928, Baltimore, Md.; free-lance writer, 1954-; adjunct professor, New York University, 1964- )
found: Wikipedia, October 28, 2018:(Sidney Offit (born October 13, 1928) is an American writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of various children's books during the 1960s; He attended Valley Forge Military Academy and College and later studied at Johns Hopkins University, where he was also editor of The Johns Hopkins News-Letter. After graduating with a B.A. in English Literature in 1950, he moved to New York City; editorial assistant at Mercury Publications and McFadden Publishers; Offit began teaching fiction writing at both New York University and The New School)