. >> jimmy: tommy lasorda, this book is unbelievable. i guess. for one thing, it is amazing that a guy with as much talent as you had. and i think there's this notion that suddenly you got good when you were in the minor leagues. no. you were a very good high school player. one of the top prospects. and did you all the things that you needed to do to get drafted in the major leagues. and you did not get drafted in the major leagues initially. but your dad happened to be a buddy of tommy lasorda's and tommy insist that had the dodgers draft you. >> yeah. >> jimmy: even though tommy insisted they draft you, it seemed like no one else in the organization wanted you to be part of it. >> it's true. when i was drafted, my dad was like do you want to try him out? see what he can do? well, no. we'll watch him play. we'll follow him. and tommy said let me ask you. i went out and i'm hitting balls out of the ballpark. and tommy said if he was a shortstop, would you sign him now? he said absolutely. if he was a catcher, would you sign him now? abso

i know tommy lasorda i'm told would send players down to the minors from the toilet. l them into the bathroom. >> did he really? that's great. >> jimmy: you should talk to tommy about how to manage people. it's not a bad idea. you have a lot of your friends on the show and a lot of your costars are guest stars are famous people who don't typically do sitcoms like seth rogan. >> he's in a show coming up in a couple weeks. he plays my friend from jewish summer camp. my parents would only like me go to sleepover camp if it was jewish camp. because they thought that would be safer. he is the one that got away. he is funny and great. >> jimmy: you guys play kid versions of yourself. >> we had to cast kid versions. for seth it's easy to find 12-year-old guys who look like seth does now. but it's difficult to find a chubby indian girls who are 12. >> jimmy: i have always said that. >> right? i urged them to go and act. because there were two of them and they are not really actors. someone grabbed them from the supermarket or something. and this girl who plays me is literally

two years later as a favor to tommy lasorda, the dodgers elected him. it was a courtesy pick.art of what makes him unique, that he came from that lowly beginning to become the greatest offensive catcher in major league history. >> reporter: though he playing for five teams in his career, he made his first name with the dodgers and later with the new york mets. when he was finally done in 2007, he hit 427 home runs and set the record for the most ever by a catcher. >> the greatest home-run-hitting catcher in the history of the game. >> mike pea stay za has written a book with lonnie wheeler, "long shot." >> thank you. >> you're also a good catholic. were you surprised? >> stunned. if you think there's going to be a former pope for the first time in 600 years, that's truly groundbreaking. i was there about a month ago because i do some work with the italian program and wimt to the papal mass and one thing i noticed was how frail he was, so it seems to be more probably of a health decision than anything. you know. >> you write in your book that your faith is a fundamental corners