Detroit Tigers slugger Delmon Young went on a drunken, anti-Semetic rampage outside a posh Manhattan hotel early this morning — shouting “F-ing Jews” to a group of tourists before throwing one to the ground, sources said.
The $6.5 million outfielder was so drunk that he had to be hospitalized after his arrest.
Young directed his rage on four men who were in town for a bachelor party when he saw them talking to a yarmulke-and-Star of David-wearing pan handler outside the Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue at 2:40 a.m.
He allegedly shouted “You bunch of F-ing Jews!” and pushed the first member of the group that he could get his hands on — Jason Shank, a business man from Schaumburg Ill, sources said.
The 6-3, 240-pound Young allegedly shoved the much smaller Shank, 32, into a hotel wall, and then tackled him before the scuffle was broken up, sources said.
Shank and his pals quickly escaped into the Hilton. Young gave chase but was stopped by a guard, who made him prove he was a hotel guest, sources said.
Someone in Shanks group called 911 — and the Tigers terror was arrested on charges of aggravated harassment in the second degree, a misdemeanor with a hate-crime element.
Shank only suffered scratches and bleeding to his arm.
Young was taken to Roosevelt Hospital to dry out before he could be processed.
He was later taken to Midtown North Precinct, where he slept off the rest of his stupor.
Young, who missed tonight’s game against the Yankees, was arraigned around 7 p.m. and freed on $5,000 bail.
Young’s lawyer, Dan Ollen, called the bail “silly” and “ridiculous.”
“He’s a world famous baseball player” who has every reason to come back to court, he said.
“He has no criminal record,” and “the chance of jail in this case is extremely unlikely.”
Ollen added that a videotape of the incident shows Shanks groups were the instigators.
“Someone in the other party says something that causes him to react,” Ollen said. He refused to elaborate after court, and said there’s no audio on the tape.
Young earlier said in a statement:
“I sincerely regret what happened. I take this matter very seriously and assure everyone that I will do everything I can to improve myself as a person and player.”
Tigers brass said: “We need to allow the legal process to take its course.
This is just the latest trouble for the hot-tempered Young, an outfielder who was suspended for 50 games in 2006 in the minors for chucking a bat at an umpire.
A former Twin, Young joined the Tigers last last season and homered in his first playoff at bat for the team in last year’s ALDS against the Yankees.
This year the team signed him to a one-year $6, 725,000 contract.
— Additional reporting by Dareh Gregorian, Kevin Fasick and Todd Venezia