The professional basketball season still had a few games to go last week when the Detroit Pistons' George ("The Bird") Yardley broke one of the brightest records in the game. Helping the Pistons beat the Minneapolis Lakers, 132-116. the Bird tossed in 49 points, pushed his year's total to a record 1,953. Watching him while he did it was the old titleholder: George Mikan, 33, the great Minneapolis center who held the seven-year-old mark of 1,932. By week's end Yardley had raised his record to 1,975.
The Bird's closest competitors for scoring honors this season: Syracuse's Dolph Schayes, 1,755, St. Louis' Bob...
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