Dave May Dies at 68 Dave May, a onetime All-Star for the Milwaukee Brewers who was traded to Atlanta in order to bring back the local hero Hank Aaron, died on Oct. 20 in Bear, Del. The cause was cancer, his son Derrick said. May played the outfield for five big league teams over 12 seasons, beginning in 1967 with the Orioles, who were emerging as a powerhouse. He was a reserve on the Oriole team that won the 1969 American League pennant and appeared in two games of the World Series, in which the heavily favored Orioles were upset by the Mets. The next season he was traded to the Brewers, an American League expansion team playing its first year in Milwaukee after a debut season as the Seattle Pilots. May had his best years in Milwaukee. In 1973 he batted .303, hit 25 home runs, had 93 runs batted in and was named to the All-Star team. In November 1974 he and a minor league pitcher were traded to the Braves for Aaron, then the career major league home run champion, who had left Milwaukee when the Braves decamped for Atlanta after the 1965 season. May played two years for the Braves and one for the Texas Rangers before splitting his final season, 1978, between the Brewers and the Pittsburgh Pirates. David LaFrance May was born on Dec. 23, 1943, in New Castle, Del. He was signed after high school by the San Francisco Giants and played for their Salem, Va., farm team in 1962 before moving to the Orioles organization. May's marriage ended in divorce. In addition to his son Derrick, who played 10 major league seasons for six teams and is now the minor league hitting coordinator for the St. Louis Cardinals, he is survived by another son, Dave Jr., a scout for the Toronto Blue Jays; a daughter, Denae May; five sisters; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.