What’s the big deal about an asterisk? It just something that alerts you to notable information. 150 year long record books ought to be littered with them. The thing really doesn’t make much sense without asterisks (or the equivalent). Most of the arguments and counter arguments on this thread are asterisks (some more helpful than others. None of them remove the record from the books or make it less real. If someone wants to celebrate the asterisk next to Maris that says his feat was special because of the unusual animosity from his own team’s fans, that makes sense. Likewise for those that want to stress the number of games each hit their significant home runs in, or whether or not the player played against an integrated league that includes the best pitchers, or my favorite asterisk, Yankee stadium is a joke for homers.
Asterisk on, my friends.
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