07/01/2007 7:38 PM ET Nationals first baseman Dmitri Young selected to National League All-Star team Young tabbed by All-Star manager Tony La Russa; Earns second career All-Star nod

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Young, 33, earns his second career All-Star selection. He was an American League All-Star in 2003 with the Detroit Tigers, but did not appear in the game held at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago.

Young joins Chad Cordero (2005), Livan Hernandez (2005) and Alfonso Soriano (2006) as All-Stars representing the Washington Nationals. Young is the franchise's first first baseman to earn All-Star honors since Andres Galarraga represented the Expos in the 1988 All-Star Game in Cincinnati.

Young, whose first big league manager was La Russa in St. Louis in 1996, is hitting a team-best .340 with seven home runs and 37 RBI. He entered Sunday's game at Pittsburgh ranked third in the National League and sixth in the majors in hitting, and went 2-for-4 in the game before being lifted for a defensive replacement. His .423 batting average (63-for-149) in 40 games beginning May 17 leads the majors during that time.

A veteran of 12 big league seasons, Young was signed by the Nationals as a minor league free agent February 14 and assigned to the club's Accelerated Development Program in Viera, FL to start Spring Training. He was promoted to big league camp March 18, and had his contract purchased March 28 to be the Nationals' Opening Day first baseman.

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