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identify7The original plan was to assemble an inexpensive grouping of relatively unknown pitchers and catchers who just happened to have lots of pickoffs as part of their statistics.
Adding Foutz and Browning to Galvin is not stepping in the initially intended direction.
But I have to believe that Browning was not quite as alert as he could have been, for Foutz to pull this off. So in this individual instance, both cards would be included.
Edited to add:
I wonder who got caught offbase with the hidden ball trick, before it became illegal. And who perpetrated these deceptions.
Ooops, it is not illegal - only limited - and it has happened too many times to collect. Unless you collect "who pulled it off the most" or "which dummy got caught most often", etc.
Two players have pulled it off six times: George Stovall + Frank Crosetti