High Schools - Meletiche, Kerins earn top All-City honors

Philadelphia Daily News, June, 2008 by Ted Silary

WHEN IT CAME to production, "Shortie" was longie.

Esteban "Shortie" Meletiche, a 5-11, 160-pound senior from Frankford High, is our Player of the Year in connection with the 31st annual  Daily News  All-City Baseball Team.

What'd he do? What  didn't  he do?

Meletiche, the leadoff batter, merely collected 46 hits in 75 at-bats ( no  strikeouts) for a .613 average in leading the Pioneers (20-2 overall) to a second consecutive Public League championship. He added 14 doubles, six triples and one homer in addition to notching 21 RBI, stealing 20 bases and scoring 43 runs.

The nimble Meletiche also played the  heck  out of shortstop and shared franchise-pitcher honors with junior righthander Edwin "Tito" Rohena, who also earned first-team All-City acclaim (as an...