Edgardo Alfonzo made a terminally ill teenager’s lifelong dream come true yesterday when he visited Oscar Morales at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island.

A Met fan since the 1986 World Series, Morales had always wanted to meet one of his favorite baseball players. When Alfonzo walked into his room yesterday, his heart leapt.

“It was unbelievable,” said Morales after a long pause trying to find the words to describe what had just taken place.

Alfonzo arrived a little after 9 a.m. with a black bag full of Met gifts and goodies. But the real treat for Morales, 18, was talking with Alfonzo in a meeting that lasted almost an hour.

The two spoke in Spanish about baseball and religion, two things he and his idol both hold dearly. They also read from the Bible with other patients from down the hall, took pictures and signed autographs in the hospital room trimmed with Met photos and banners.

“His heart is so big,” Morales said. “He was nothing like I thought he would be. He was so great. His heart is good.”

Diagnosed with recurrent brain cancer no longer responsive to chemotherapy, Morales may not live another month, according to doctors at the Manhasset hospital.

“We wanted to make this happen as soon as we could,” said Chris Leible, an agent who represents Alfonzo and who helped to set up the meeting after talking to one of Morales’ doctors.

Alfonzo was visibly touched when Morales presented him with a gift of his own – a leather bound and gold trimmed Bible – and said that he admires the strength of the boy and his family.

Morales, from Great Neck, was healthy until he developed headaches, nausea and blurry vision in February 1999. The symptoms amounted to a brain mass, which was operated on and found to be a tumor identified as medulloblastoma.

After Morales underwent chemotherapy last December, the cancer spread throughout his body, painfully attacking bones and joints. In March, Morales was readmitted to North Shore, where he is being fed antibiotics and intravenous medication to ease the pain in his abdomen and legs.

“This is going to make his month,” Dr. Dan Camillery said of Alfonzo’s visit. “This will do him well.”

“He’ll be high on this for a week,” Dr. Greg Martin said. “Maybe more.”

Upbeat and smiling from Alfonzo’s visit, Morales said that he will attend Thursday’s Met game against the Marlins at Shea Stadium, accomplishing yet another dream.

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