Daily Cover: Asterisk in sports

Sixty years out from Maris’s 61*, and smack in the middle of a sporting era that begs to be put into context, let us hold up for examination the asterisk, which can act as a footnote, fig leaf, scarlet letter and so much more. Sports Illustrated's Madelyn Burke discusses the history of the asterisk in sports.

Sixty years out from Maris’s 61*, and smack in the middle of a sporting era that begs to be put into context, let us hold up for examination the asterisk, which can act as a footnote, fig leaf, scarlet letter and so much more. Sports Illustrated's Madelyn Burke discusses the history of the asterisk in sports.

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