# Someone plants a 25 foot tall tree on baseball field

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**Created:** [June 12, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-plants-a-25-foot-tall-tree-on-baseball-field/722368 "2015-06-12T17:18:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-plants-a-25-foot-tall-tree-on-baseball-field/722368/21 "2015-06-13T08:12:42Z")

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> [@cochrane](#):
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> Like the flagpole in Minute Maid Park, which is planted on a hill in center field and the area surrounding it is in play.

Like the [lime tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Lawrence_Ground) on the cricket ground at Canterbury. Hitting the tree counted as crossing the boundary. Sadly the tree died some years ago.

Note: an English lime is not a fruit tree nor even related.

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**Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-plants-a-25-foot-tall-tree-on-baseball-field/722368/22 "2015-06-13T18:58:14Z")

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In the days when Mad Magazine was in comic book format, they did an issue that was a parody of a Superman comic. In one scene, Clark Kent ducks into a phone booth that he finds conveniently located in the middle of a football field.

“Off with the hat! Off with the shirt! Off with the trousers! Off with the long johns! Oops! Back on with the long johns! That’s my uniform!”

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-plants-a-25-foot-tall-tree-on-baseball-field/722368/23 "2015-06-13T21:35:18Z")

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C’mon, people! Why so heartless? This is obviously a young tree, terminally ill with bark beetles, who wanted, all of his life, to become a baseball bat, so Make-A-Wish planted him where he could be truly happy. How cynical you all are! A prank!

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