When he famously got a home run taken away from him for having too much pine tar on his bat in 1983, he went from dugout to umpire in a 3.7 seconds.

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At Christmastime 2008, Von Lipinski didn't think much about the pine needle prick until the redness started spreading and he experienced abnormal pain.

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They were booted from their habitats by New Zealand's timber industry, which planted so much imported Monterey pine that 7% of the country now is covered with it.

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