Interesting case candy, Thile Rookie Card?

[ChCollins]

I recently bought a mandolin here in the classifieds. To my delight this was tucked away between some spare string sets. . I'd never seen one before. I assume these were included inside of the "Stealing Second" cd packaging?

[Mandolin Cafe]

Different size, orientation. Thanks for posting ChCollins.

[Miltown]

Impressive stats.

By the way, was Thile the youngest-ever winner of Winfield?

[mtm]

I wonder if he still has his own card !!!!!

[ChCollins]

Hey thanks for the photo help!
I didn't know until I found this card and searched the forum to find Chris is a lefty that picks right handed, as am I. Hopefully that accounts for some of his musical mastery!!

[Tobin]

I assume these were included inside of the "Stealing Second" cd packaging?

Must have only been in a special (early?) edition or something. I bought that CD around 2008 and it had no such card in it. Pretty cool, though! I'd never seen it before.

It is a proven statistical fact that left-handed people tend to have higher IQs and special skills. I don't know if it's a function of their brains being wired differently, and making them left-handed is a side effect of that, or whether being left-handed and having to live in a right-handed world causes their brains to adapt more efficiently and learn better. But it's an interesting phenomenon. (I'm right-handed but my twin brother is left-handed.) I do think that Thile's left-handedness is partially at play with his mastery of the mandolin. Both physically and mentally.

[CES]

He's admittedly a huge Cubs fan...probably has at least one stuck in a storage box in the attic...

[Phil Goodson]

Hey thanks for the photo help!
I didn't know until I found this card and searched the forum to find Chris is a lefty that picks right handed, as am I. Hopefully that accounts for some of his musical mastery!!

Or is he a righty who bats left?