The play isn't exactly rare, but it occurs often in other levels of baseball than in the Major Leagues:
Runners are on first and third. As the pitcher begins his motion, the runner on first breaks.
It's unlikely you recognize the name of Otto Knabe.
He played second base for 4 teams during his 11-year Major League career. His first 3 games were for the Pirates, at age 21, in 1905. Next came.
A fitting topic for this, the 1,000th post I have published, at least 1 each day, since Jan. 1, 2020.
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"The Kid Who Batted 1.000" is a novel, published in 1951, about a Major League.
The farther you go back in the history of baseball, the more problematic its statistics become.
Until after World War II, significant data frequently is incomplete, if not missing entirely..