Today we explore May 26th and May 27th when Harvey Haddix pitches 12 brilliant innings only to lose it in the 13th.

What future famous owner was at the game? Bud Selig.

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Learn More about the teams, players, ball parks and events that happened on this date in history just click the tags! 1959 | Felix Mantilla | Hank Aaron | Harvey Haddix | Joe Adcock | May 26 | Milwaukee Braves | Pittsburgh Pirates

On May 10, 1981, Montreal Expos right-hander Charlie Lea pitches the first no-hitter in the history of Olympic Stadium. Lea, the first French-born pitcher to hurl a no-hitter, strikes out eight batters and walks four in the second game of a doubleheader, as the Expos beat the San Francisco Giants, 4-0.

In 2010 Lea was asked what he remembered about the final out of the game, it ended with a fly ball of the bat of Giants first baseman Enos Cabell. Lea said “It was a slider a little bit away from him,” he went onto say, ” I don’t know if it was up or down but he hit it off the end, a little lazy fly ball to center. Dawson really didn’t have to move out of his tracks. Andre was a fairly emotionless guy. When he caught it and and immediately threw his arms in the air and started jumping up and down, me seeing his emotion, it was something special.”

Only three pitchers tossed no-hitters for the Montreal Expos franchise, Bill Stoneman did it twice in 1969 and 1972, and Dennis Martinez pitched a perfect game in 1991.

Learn More about the teams, players, ball parks and events that happened on this date in history just click the tags! 1981 | Andre Dawson | Bill Stoneman | Charlie Lea | Dennis Martinez | Enos Cabell | May 10 | Montreal Expos | Olympic Stadium | San Francisco Giants

On May 8, 1968, Catfish Hunter of the Oakland A’s pitches a perfect game against the Minnesota Twins. Hunter’s perfect game is the first in the American League during the regular season in 46 years, when White Sox right-hander Charlie Robertson, who accomplished the feat against Detroit in 1922.

Don Larsen had pitched a perfect game in the 1956 World Series.

He strikes out 11, including Harmon Killebrew three times, and drives in three of the A’s four runs, the other coming on a two-out, bases-loaded walk to 1B Danny Cater in the 8th inning. Only 6,298 fans are in attendance.

1968 | Catfish Hunter | Danny Cater | Harmon Killebrew | May 8 | Minnesota Twins | Oakland A's