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Tigers’ Young pleads guilty to drunken bias attack on Midtown tourist

Detroit Tiger and accused anti-Semite Delmon Young pleaded guilty in Manhattan today to a random, drunken bias attack on a male Midtown tourist from back in April. It’s a deal that keeps the free agent outfielder out of jail and will eventually leave him with no criminal record.

The $6.7 million-a-year player had lost $250,000 in salary after being suspended by Major League Baseball for the attack, a bizarre sidewalk beatdown during which he was overheard shouting “F—ing Jews!”

Young — this year’s American League Championship MVP — has since spent months in counseling, according to noted defense lawyer Daniel Ollen.

“He has spent the last few months in counseling with Jewish leaders,” the lawyer said of Young, who is not Jewish.

“He has reached out to two Rabbis in Detroit who have become his confidants, and who he has been counseling with.” The Rabbis wrote letters of support to the judge on Young’s behalf, Ollen said.

“Delmon has accepted responsibility for his actions,” the lawyer said.

In court today, the sloshed slugger admitted he was guilty of misdemeanor aggravated harassment, but did not admit to any specific details of the attack, which was partially caught on surveillance video but which his lawyer has said he has no recollection of.

The victim, a businessman from Schaumburg, Ill., was among a group of four tourists in town for a bachelor party, and had been conversing with a panhandler — who was wearing a yarmulke and a Star of David — outside the Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue, officials said.

Young was accused of throwing the businessman into a wall and tackling him while shouting “F—ing Jews!” before the scuffle was broken up.

Under today’s deal, Young must complete ten days of community service in New York, and a one-day program of workshops at the New York Museum of Tolerance on East 42nd Street.

He’ll then return to Manhattan Criminal Court on May 7, and re-plead to second degree harassment, a violation that will not leave him with a criminal record.

Despite walloping the Yankees out of the playoffs, the free agent Young is not expected to re-sign with Detroit this winter.

He batted .353 with two homers and six RBIs during the Tigers’ four-game sweep of the Bombers. Tigers officials said last week they don’t expect to pursue Young, leaving him free to sign with any team in baseball.

“Defendants learn how their words and actions can have implications far beyond a single incident, and are taught about sensitivity and compassion,” Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance said of the program Young will attend.

The museum has partnered with the DA’s Hate Crimes Unit in creating interactive workshops, videos and guided discussions that are tailored to defendants convicted of bias and hate crimes, Vance said.

Additional reporting by David K. Li