In what has come to be known as " the Pine Tar Incident ," umpires discovered illegal placement of pine tar ( more than 18 inches up the handle ) on third baseman George Brett's bat after he had hit a two-run home run off Gossage that put the Royals up 5 – 4 in the top of the 9th. The baseball bat used by Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett ( baseball ) | George Brett in the Pine Tar Incident on July 24, 1983.

In Scandinavian countries, Scots Pine was used for making tar in the pre-industrial age.

Pine tar ’ s boiling point is listed at 637 ° F ( 337 ° C ).

During the 1983 season, Martin was involved in one of the most controversial regular season games, known as the Pine Tar Incident, where umpires nullified a game-winning home run by Yankee nemesis, Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett, when Martin protested that there was too much pine tar on his bat.

Pine tar mixed with beer can be used to remove tapeworms ( flat worms ) or nematodes ( round worms ) and pine tar mixed with sulfur is useful to treat dandruff.

Pine tar is produced by slowly burning pine roots, branches, or small trunks in a partially smothered flame ( Erichsen-Brown, 1979 ).

" Kidnap America " was a politically / socially-conscious track released in 1980 during the Iran hostage crisis, while " Pine Tar Wars " referred to an event that actually happened in a New York Yankees-Kansas City Royals baseball game during 1983 ( a dispute concerning the application of a large quantity of pine tar to a baseball bat used by George Brett, one of the Royals players ).

An infamous example of the rule in execution is the Pine Tar Incident on July 24, 1983, when Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett was called out after hitting an apparent home run, because after comparing the length of the pine-tar treated area to the width of home plate ( 17 inches ), the umpire determined too much of the bat was covered with pine tar.

Pine tar is a sticky material produced by the high temperature carbonization of pine wood in anoxic conditions ( dry distillation or destructive distillation ).

Pine tar consists primarily of aromatic hydrocarbons, tar acids and tar bases.

Pine tar has a long history as a wood preservative, as a wood sealant for maritime use, in roofing construction and maintenance, in soaps such as Packer ’ s Pine Tar Soap and in the treatment of skin diseases, such as psoriasis, eczema, and rosacea.

Pine tar has long been used in Scandinavian nations as a preservative for wood which may be exposed to harsh conditions, including outdoor furniture and ship decking and rigging.

Pine tar is widely used as a veterinary care product.

Pine tar has been used when chickens start pecking the low hen.

Pine tar has also been used to make medicinal soap for people with skin ailments.

Pine tar can be used for preserving wooden boats ( and other wood which will be exposed to the elements ) by using a mixture of pine tar, gum turpentine and boiled linseed oil.

Pine tar is also efficacious for properly saturating lead or standard oakum so that the endurance of the sealing capacity is optimal.

Pine tar is also sometimes used by pitchers in baseball to improve grip on the ball in cold weather, although it is questionable whether it gives a pitcher any competitive advantage.

The ecoregion has forests of Turkish Pine ( Pinus brutia ), oak forests and woodlands, and maquis shrubland of Turkish Pine and evergreen sclerophyllous trees and shrubs, including Olive ( Olea europaea ), Strawberry Tree ( Arbutus unedo ), Arbutus andrachne, Kermes Oak ( Quercus coccifera ), and Bay Laurel ( Laurus nobilis ).

In recent years the largest of the trees, Kirk's " Minister's Pine ", has been damaged by vandals who have hammered coins into the bark.

This is similar to the argument that fire suppression in western United States has allowed Ponderosa Pine forests to become “ overstocked ”.

In the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park, a portable tribune with an 11, 000-person capacity has been built in the Anzac Cove and Lone Pine Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery Lone Pine Memorial region.

* 1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the " Pine Tar Incident ".

" The Pine Tar Incident " has now become part of baseball lore.

In these warmer areas the taiga has higher species diversity, with more warmth-loving species such as Korean Pine, Jezo Spruce, and Manchurian Fir, and merges gradually into mixed temperate forest or, more locally ( on the Pacific Ocean coasts of North America and Asia ), into coniferous temperate rainforests.

Pine is no longer under development, and has been replaced by the new Alpine client, which is licensed as free software.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

The Au Sable has about of tributary streams including the Pine River.

# The tablet is broken here, but it seems that Gilgamesh has suggested going to the Pine Forest to cut down trees and kill Humbaba ( known here as Huwawa ).

It has only been found in blue oak-Digger Pine associations in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, a habitat which occurs at moderately high elevations.

Virginia Beach has many distinctive communities and neighborhoods within its boundaries, including: Acredale, Alanton, Aragona Village, Arrowhead, Bay Colony, Bayside, Blackwater, Brigadoon, Brighton on the Bay, Buckner Farms, Carolanne Farm, Castleton, Chesapeake Beach, College Park, Croatan Beach, Glenwood, Great Neck, Green Run, Greenwich, Heritage Park, Hilltop, Indian Lakes, Indian River Plantation, Kempsville, Kings Grant, Lago Mar, Landstown, Little Neck, London Bridge, Lynnhaven, Magic Hollow, Middle Plantation, Munden, the North End, Oceana, Ocean Lakes, Ocean Park, Oceanfront, Old Beach, Pembroke Manor, Pembroke Meadows, Pembroke Shores, Pine Meadows, Princess Anne, Pungo, Redwing, Salem, Sandbridge, Seatack, Thalia, Strawbridge, Thalia Shores, Thoroughgood, Windsor Woods, and Witchduck Point.

Jefferson County has 21 Commissioners, two from each of the ten districts with White Pine electing three.

The origin of the name has also been confused with that Patrick Sinclair, a British officer who purchased land on the St. Clair River at the outlet of the Pine River.

Pine Cove suffers a major crisis when the town psychiatrist, Val Riordan — who has been haphazardly issuing prescriptions instead of dealing with the real mental problems of her patients — suffers a sudden bout of guilt and substitutes all of her patients ' anti-depressants with placebos.

When the beast ( whom Molly has named " Steve ") starts eating residents of Pine Cove and interfering with Theo's boss's meth business, Molly ( who has become romantically involved with the beast ) and Theo band together to make possible the beast's safe escape and to take down the boss at the same time.

It has now been developed into a tranquil woodland dominated with Scots Pine and native broadleaves.

* Hoopstick – Just north of Pine Island in the Black Dirt on Pulaski Highway, historically the home of 19th century barrel hoop makers.

* Snufftown – A hamlet north of Pine Island near the town line ; historically considered the " Snufftown section of the village of Florida ", it is last settlement in the Florida Union free school district.

" This, the Pine Grove Church of Nicholson, Pennsylvania, and the Stony Lane Church, were the last two churches to be considered historically Six-Principle Baptist.

The historically more common name Digger Pine is still in widespread use.

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff ( UAPB ) is a historically black university located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States.

Located at, Yellow Pine has historically served as the trade center for the larger Yellow Pine basin mining area, including Stibnite.

The route of the Downeaster is similar to the route historically used by the Pine Tree, which was a joint Boston & Maine / Maine Central train from Boston to Bangor.