2020 was a weird year for baseball and all of professional sports. Very few sports allowed live spectators, and in the years to come, we’ll shake our heads and marvel at footage from the abbreviated 2020 baseball season that shows cardboard cutouts in the seats meant to represent fans.
Still, the Los Angeles Dodgers, who won the World Series last year, have no trouble claiming their win should not have an asterisk next to it, as some baseball historians are already saying it should. They feel like they had to scratch and claw through injuries and pandemic-related hardships to claim victory, so their win should be just as legit as any other.