Whicker: The Dodgers’ win bears an asterisk, but they didn’t put it there

Sixty games aren’t 162.
Nobody wins the Daytona 167. They don’t stop the Masters on the back nine Friday afternoon and award the green T-shirt.
Those who say the 2020 season, and the Dodgers’ championship, don’t deserve an asterisk have a fundamental misunderstanding of what an asterisk is. It is not a scarlet letter, necessarily. It is a mark of distinction.
Ford Frick, one of baseball’s nearly unbroken line of undistinguished commissioners, wanted to put an asteri