you made with albert brooks. >> albert brooks.ere like, "you're the only guy getting paid to wear the pinstripes this year." >> jimmy: oh, right. >> i played a yankee pitcher. >> jimmy: you shot at yankee stadium, as i recall? >> i did. pitched from the mound, actually. >> jimmy: you did, yeah. that's got to be a dream come true, right? >> it was -- it was, yeah. before i knew to have the dream, tell you the truth. >> jimmy: okay, yeah. >> believe it or not, i got ahold of -- steve nebraska has to hit it out of the park. on the first pitch when it came time to shoot my stuff, i actually got ahold of it and it was not a bad single, right over second base. they caught me for sure but they were like, "we thought we were going to be here all afternoon." >> jimmy: the yankees, none of the yankees were there at this time because it was the strike? >> that's right, it was. they were being doubled. george steinbrenner, it was his house. >> jimmy: right, sure. >> we would be shooting, and michael ritchie was the director. great guy, gentle

i am sweating like albert brooks in "broadcast news." [ laughter ] pouring off me. "hi, johnny."ust got to tell you, you did so great, and you know, i just -- i've done it, a bunch of times." he said all these nice things. "no one should do it but you." on and on and on and on and on. and i went, "thank you." and i started to cry. >> jimmy: wow. >> yeah. because that's all you wanted, back then, was for johnny to give you -- >> jimmy: right. >> "give me one of these." rodney used to say. i got one of these. >> jimmy: you're saying johnny doesn't want me to host this show? [ laughter ] >> no. >> jimmy: oh. >> no. >> jimmy: okay, that's what i got from it. [ laughter ] >> no, it was kind of extraordinary. >> jimmy: yeah. that's pretty -- that's pretty spectacular, yeah. >> the whole thing is spectacular. if you get into it, the people that you get to meet -- people you never thought you would ever meet. >> jimmy: what are some of the people you met that -- >> that are -- strangers you ever -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> shirley temple. >> jimmy: wow, okay. >> they had a reunion of all the p