WASHINGTON — Washington Nationals relief pitcher Drew Storen shared his love of reading with more than 100 kids Saturday at Tenley-Friendship Library in Northwest D.C.
Storen read a book called “Mighty Jackie, the Strike-Out Queen,” which is based on a true story. But before he began, he fielded a few questions from the audience. One kid asked what types of pitches he liked to throw.
“Strikes,” he said, drawing laughter from kids and parents.
Henry Uhlendorf, 5, came dressed in a Red Sox jersey and was wearing a Nationals hat. His dad, Carl Uhlendorf says his son has mixed allegiance. Henry was born in D.C. and loves the Nats, but since his dad is from Massachusetts, he also sports Red Sox team wear.
Storen’s visit is part of DC Library’s Summer Reading Program and it’s the second year the Nationals have teamed up with the program.
“We had 27,000 people sign up for this year’s summer reading program. and that’s more than twice what we had last year,” says George Williams, a spokesman for D.C. libraries.
Storen was supposed be at the library on July 18. But that had to be rescheduled. Storen unexpectedly got called into work.
If you remember on July 17 at Nats Park the lights went out for hours causing the game against the Dodgers to be stopped and played the next day. That next day, was Saturday, July 18–when Storen was scheduled to read at the library.
Seven year-old David Marentette and his sister, 4-year-old Nora Marentette, are small but they are huge fans of the Nats and of Storen.They were on vacation in July and would have missed Storen’s visit.
But since it was rescheduled, they got to enjoy the major league star and they got autographed picture of Storen.
