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Mark Glazer discusses a collection of 152 variants from the Rio Grande Folklore Archive at Pan American University in Texas and states that the legend is “part of a culture which believes in miracles, mystery, and romance” (1987, 35).
Indeed, Langenscheidt's Russian-German Pocket Dictionary has the entry fol'klor which reflects the sound correctly (the letter l has a soft sign after it), meaning Volkskunst or folklore.
A California folklore journal first carried an article about it in 1942, and a Chicano version appears in Miller’s narrative collection from Los Angeles with a date of 1939.
Permanent displays show the fast-disappearing world of Hungarian rural life and folklore; these are underpinned by trenchant temporary exhibitions dealing with current issues, such as the lives of Budapest’s gypsies.
Based on a review of the trajectory charts in The Physics of Baseball and Keep Your Eye on the Ball: The Science and Folklore of Baseball , conversations with University of Puget Sound physicist Andrew Rex, and correspondence with aerospace engineer and baseball researcher Roger Hawks, I determined that the McGwire home run would have traveled about 474 feet.