I'm with you on reading about baseball. I have virtually no interest in professional sports at all and reading about one of the dullest of the professional sports . . . If Pitching in a Pinch wins I'll be skipping reading the July selection.

I've read one of Cornwell's historical fiction books, it was set in Anglo-Saxon England at the time of King Alfred the Great. I did not care for it at all. Now I realize that in historical fiction the author takes a framework of actual history and on that hangs a tapestry of fiction that coincides with the author's intent. In the case of King Alfred's time the actual facts are so limited that of necessity a book becomes primarily fiction. I was just really put off though by how much made up sexual content and sexual attitudes, presumably to garner interest among modern readers, Cornwell put in the book I read, as well as misrepresenting the importance of Christianity in England at that time.

On the other hand if Waterloo is selected I will probably read that if only to see how Cornwell does with a non-fiction history book, especially from a time where so much more is known about the people and events.