The Topic

What I love most about my topic is how "unacademic" it is. I'm writing about a game when there are certainly many more serious topics to look at. In the beginning it was kind of intimidating to be honest. I was in a way happy to do my presentation on the first day because I was afraid that after seeing everyone else present, people wouldn't take mine seriously. I think that such apprehensions were helpful though because a project based soley around the topic of Fenway Park and the game that is played inside of it, would fail to elicit a feeling of importance in a significant protion of my audience. A lot of people just don't care about baseball. So I made a stronger effort to incorporarte the historical, sociological and cultural aspects of Fenway. This way I think my project can engage the interests of many, for history, society and culture are sort of common denominators for most people.