Collects two novels by Mike Lupica, "Travel Team," in which twelve-year-old Danny Walker is cut from his travel basketball team and decides to form his own team of castoffs, hoping that he might have a shot at victory, and "The Big Field," in which fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, but decides to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.