Lewis spends day at Rangers Summer Reading Club

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ARLINGTON — Rangers right-handed pitcher Colby Lewis has had a little extra free time of late after a right lat strain landed him on the 60-day disabled list on June 25.

On Wednesday afternoon, Lewis used that free time to join Eric Nadel, the Rangers’ Ford C. Frick Award-winning radio play-by-play broadcaster, in his latest installment of the Rangers Summer Reading Club at the Southeast Branch Library in Arlington. The Summer Reading Club, in its eighth year in existence, encourages children in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex communities to continue reading during the summer.

Lewis, a native of Bakersfield, Calif., didn’t have reading clubs like this when he was growing up. Being able to give back to the community in this form was personal for the 36-year-old right-hander.

“I grew up with a small form of dyslexia and wasn’t able to read very well. There …

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