Rapaire, you did well to score ND football tickets if you went to an NAIA college. Or were you a grad student at ND?

(If you're anywhere near as old as I am, you'd be well out of undergrad school by the time Rocket Ishmael and Tim Brown played college ball...)

In my undergrad days at Notre Dame, all students got a full season of football tickets as part of the tuition package deal, and pretty much everybody went. (It's not like there was ever much of anything else to do in South Bend...)

There was only one game when I sold my tickets and skipped the game, against Illinois my junior year (1967). Quarterback Terry Hanratty was very close to breaking a number of school records for passing in a career (yards, touchdowns, probabaly something else as well). It was a hot ticket because some of the records in question, maybe all of them, were pretty sure to be broken that day. I was broke, and much more jaded about Irish football than I had been as a freshmen (or even as a sophomore), so that was a sporting event where I might have witnessed a record-breaking performance, but I chose not to go. (Hanratty and his primary receiver Jim Seymour had huge days and all the records fell.)

Wesley:

The youngest player ever to appear in a major league baseball game was Joe Nuxhall (sp? maybe "Nuxhaul"...), who pitched for the Cincinnati Reds as a young teenager during World War II: he was only 15, I think. He went down to the minor leagues for a while, came back up to the Reds at a more reasonable age, had a decent career as a player, and then became a very beloved long-time broadcaster for the team. Joe passed away very recently; you could probably still find various obits and tributes online.

Maybe your brother-in-law holds the American League record for youngest player ~ the Reds and Blue Jays are in different leagues ~ or maybe Nuxhall's appearance rates an asterisk because of the wartime shortage of "real" major league players.