Like the lime tree 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.
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!”
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!