Its folklore and legend, usually disguised as history, are allowed to account for group actions, to provide a focal point for group loyalty, and to become a cohesive force for national identification.

Such identification comes for each group in each crisis by rewriting history into legend and developing appropriate national heroes.

2 ) The concept that an `` American national folklore '' exists is itself probably another propagandistic legend.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

Football legend, former FC Bayern President and DFB Vice-President, Franz Beckenbauer, on the other hand, showed his support for Stoiber by letting him join the German national football team on their flight home from Japan after the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

In the Victorian era, the Elizabethan legend was adapted to the imperial ideology of the day, and in the mid-20th century, Elizabeth was a romantic symbol of the national resistance to foreign threat.

According to legend, this battle also marks the first use of the Dannebrog, the world's first national flag still in use, as the national flag of Denmark.

The season was not without controversy, though, as goalkeeper Tony Meola, an American soccer goalkeeping legend that had been on the USA national team roster for three World Cups, went down with injury and backup Bo Oshoniyi would fill as a replacement.

According to legend, the Belgian national anthem was written in September 1830, during the Belgian Revolution, by a young revolutionary called " Jenneval ", who read the lyrics during a meeting at the Aigle d ' Or café.

In their attempts to represent the emperor as a figure of national unity, proponents and detractors of the Third Republic used the legend as a vehicle for exploring anxieties about gender and fears about the processes of democratization that accompanied this new era of mass politics and culture.

He scored the game-winning goals in the sixth, seventh and eighth games, the last of which has become legend in Canada and made him a national hero.

A national myth may be a legend or fictionalized narrative, which has been elevated to serious mythological, symbolical and esteemed level so as to be true to the nation ( Renan 1882 ).

He teamed with another Cowboy legend, Roger Staubach, the founder and CEO of Staubach Co., to form Smith / Cypress Partners LP, a real estate development enterprise specializing in transforming underutilized parcels in densely populated areas into commercially viable properties anchored by national retail giants.

One noted Japanese scholar described the tale as the country's " national legend.

On the day after Thanksgiving, November 23, 1984, before a national audience on CBS, Doug Flutie became a legend when his Hail Mary found its way into the arms of Gerard Phelan for a 47 – 45 victory over Miami in the Orange Bowl.

With 6 national champion titles and 9 section five champion titles, as well as various titles from local competitions, this team has become a " legend ".

During the late Goryeo era, the Dangun legend is thought to have played an important role in national unity and patriotic mobilization against the invaders.

Other musicians included John Fahey, one of the first " folk " musicians to gain national appeal, Peter Tork ( of The Monkees ), underground legend Tim Buckley, guitarist Link Wray, pop singer and songwriter Billy Stewart, country singer Patsy Cline, guitarist Danny Gatton, doo wop bands The Orioles ( based out of D. C., though from Baltimore ) and The Clovers, Scott McKenzie ( known for " If You're Going to San Francisco "), R & B singer Ruth Brown, and country star Roy Clark.

" As an " unstoppable Usenet poster who could carry on simultaneous debates about Ibsen, Chomsky, artificial intelligence, and Kate Bush ," he became an " online legend " who would also get cited in the national press as an expert on usenet.

This legend offers one explanation for how the symbolism of the dragon came to form the basis of the national flag of Bhutan.

According to legend it can be heard to beat at times when England is at war or significant national events take place.

A lifelong fan of blues music, Anderson has also opened the Blue Gator, a blues bar in Athens, Ohio which draws regional and national acts, from Cincinnati's Greg Schaber to Delta blues legend Big Jack Johnson.

Leading poets include Bjarni Thorarensen and Jónas Hallgrímsson, pioneers of the Romantic movement in Iceland ; Matthías Jochumsson, author of Iceland's national anthem ; Þorsteinn Erlingsson, lyricist ; Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran, a pioneer of realism in Icelandic literature and an outstanding short-story writer ; Einar Benediktsson, ranked as one of the greatest modern Icelandic poets ; Jóhann Sigurjónsson, who lived much of his life in Denmark and wrote many plays based on Icelandic history and legend, as well as poetry ; and the novelist Halldór Laxness, who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1955.

Arkle became a national legend in Ireland.

The award is presented annually to a former collegiate or professional center who was either a legend on the field or off the field by making extraordinary contributions through business, civic or philanthropic endeavors.

After one year, he transferred to Pepperdine University, to play his final collegiate year under the leadership and guidance of coaching legend Marv Dunphy, winning both the NCAA Title and personally, the NCAA's coveted Most Valuable Player Award.

Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.

In 1952, while still in reform school, Brown met future R & B legend Bobby Byrd, who was there playing baseball against the reform school team.

A strong gust appeared to cause Giants relief pitcher Stu Miller to slip off the pitching rubber during his delivery, resulting in a balk ( and a baseball legend that Miller was " blown off the mound ").

* March 3 – Willie Keeler, " hit ' em where they ain't " baseball legend ( d. 1923 ).

It has long been rumored, but not yet proven, that baseball legend Honus Wagner was also a Wobbly.

Barrymore was also great friends and a drinking cohort with baseball legend Mike Donlin.

In 1997, he signed as a free agent with the New York Yankees, his favorite team because of a lifelong interest in baseball legend Babe Ruth.

In 1930, a Pea Ridge sports legend, major league baseball pitcher Clyde Pea Ridge Day, built the Day ’ s Place filling station at the main downtown intersection.

Notably, it was the retirement home of baseball legend Ty Cobb who was born nearby, and was a base of operation for production of the 1956 Disney film The Great Locomotive Chase that was filmed along the Tallulah Falls Railway that ran from Cornelia northward along the rim of Tallulah Gorge to Franklin, NC.

A grand, white-columned home on Seventh Street was once the home of baseball legend Ty Cobb.

It is the birthplace of baseball legend, Josh Gibson and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Luther H. Story.

* Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger baseball legend and Hall of Fame member lived on Morton Street between Sunset and Albany in the late 1950s.

* Norm Cash, another Tiger baseball legend from the same era, lived a couple of blocks from his teammate, on Sloman Street between Jerome and Saratoga.

* Fort Wayne TinCaps, a Class A minor league baseball team whose nickname is derived from the legend of Johnny Appleseed's headgear

He retired with 493 home runs, tied with baseball legend Lou Gehrig, and became eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2010.

Said to be a true " rock ' n roll " collection, Lost in America contained three singles: " Truly Believe ", " The Kiss " and live-favorite " Gramercy Park Hotel ", which pays homage to the New York City landmark and its colorful patrons ( including baseball legend Babe Ruth.

Box Socials ( 1991 ), an evocation of life in rural Alberta during the Great Depression and World War II, features a growing boy as its protagonist and the adventure of a hometown baseball hero who gets to bat against the great pitcher legend Bob Feller.

Members suspended include Dick Clair, an Emmy Award-winning television sitcom writer and producer, Hall of Fame baseball legend Ted Williams and his son John Henry Williams, and futurist FM-2030.

According to trader legend, the product parodies once outsold Topps baseball cards.

Koshien Stadium is the oldest ballpark in Japan ; built in 1924, the stadium was once visited by American baseball legend Babe Ruth on a tour of Major League stars in 1934.

John Henry Williams ( August 27, 1968 – March 6, 2004 ) was the only son of baseball legend Ted Williams.

Paige was the subject of a lot of stories, both true and folklore, and became a legend to people who don ’ t even follow baseball.

The Brooklyn Dodgers, although under the general managership of the baseball Dodgers legend Jackie Robinson, failed to attract at the gate.

Victor Pellot has been considered by many Puerto Ricans to be one of the island greatest baseball players, a legend only beaten by Roberto Clemente.

Finding Buck McHenry is about a young boy who tries to discover whether his baseball coach is a former legend in baseball.