Paul Joseph Yesawich Jr. (November 27, 1923 – December 13, 2017)Paul Yesawich's obituary
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player who played in the United States' National Basketball League in five games for the

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. Yesawich was also a New York attorney, legal scholar and judge, serving as a justice of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court, First Judicial Department from 1974 to 1981.

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