This Day in Buffalo Sports History: It's May's Day

   July 11, 1979 -- If you have a soccer team and you don't have a goaltender, you're going to give up a lot of goals.

   On this date, the new Buffalo Stallions of the Major Indoor Soccer League got themselves a goaltender. Jim May became the first player to sign a contract with the team, which would beginning play later that year.

   May was a top college goalie at Brockport and went on to play for the Rochester Lancers of the North American Soccer League. May was an all-star with the Stallions in 1981. He came back to Western New York as vice president and occasional coach of the Buffalo Blizzard in the 1990's. May is a member of the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.

--- Budd Bailey