Pull has been slang for "to engineer a
deception" for well over a century, but the expression to pull a fast one,
"to put over a trick or clever swindle," goes back to only about 1938.
Baseball seems the obvious source - a pitcher coming in hard with a fast
ball after throwing a lot of "junk." But the nod has to go to
"fast-bowling a cricket," however, as the expression is first recorded in
England.