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.
Post-season exhibition games, Part 9: Barnstorming and war By JohnW53 on Jan 18, 2021, 4:41am CST +
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In some years between 1901 and 1913, after concluding their National League schedule, the Cubs played more than a dozen more games in October, not counting the World Series or City Series.
In 1914, they played none.
Maybe it was because there had been a surfeit of Major League baseball in Chicago that year. The Cubs played on the west side, the White Sox on the south side and the city s team in the new Federal League played on the north side, in their splendid new ballpark bounded by Addison and Clark streets, and by Sheffield and Waveland avenues.