Small colleges are abusing varsity athletics to juice enrollment. : It was September 6, 1971, a Saturday night game between the L.A. Dodgers and the prior year’s National League champion Cincinnati Reds. The Dodgers were leading in the bottom of the 5th inning when their fastest player, second baseman Maury Wills, got on base. With Wills on second and always a risk to steal, shortstop Woody Woodward jogged back to the bag to keep him honest. And that’s when it happened.