WASHINGTON — Washington Nationals relief pitcher Drew Storen shared his love of reading with more than 100 kids Saturday at Tenley-Friendship Library 聽in Northwest D.C.
Storen read聽a book聽聽called 鈥淢ighty Jackie, the Strike-Out Queen,鈥� 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, 聽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鈥檚 visit is part of DC Library鈥檚 Summer Reading Program and it鈥檚 the second year the Nationals have teamed up with the program.
鈥淲e had 27,000聽people sign up for this year鈥檚 summer reading program. and that鈥檚 more than twice what we had last year,鈥� says聽George Williams,聽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鈥檚 visit.
But since it was rescheduled, they got to enjoy the major league star and they got autographed picture of Storen.
