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Trickery by the Miami Hurricanes remains a college baseball highlight 35 years later

When the College Baseball World Series kicks off in Omaha later this month, the Miami Hurricanes will not be there.

Yet, rest assured, at least one play which lives on in Hurricanes lore will be featured at least once.

The Hurricanes pulled off perhaps the most famous play in college baseball history on this date 35 years ago.

It has been called the phantom pickoff, the hidden ball play and the grand illusion.

Whatever you call it, it was most definitely memorable.

“We made it look so good,” late Miami coach Ron Fraser said in 2007, “you'd want to eat it.