Hip surgery four days before the portrait shoot changed Jeffery Salter’s plans to shoot Hank Aaron at the Atlanta Braves' stadium, but Hank invited SI into his home where Salter captured one of his favorite photos of Hank kissing a baseball bat. Salter grew up hearing stories about Hank Aaron from his father who was the same age as Hank and also grew up in Alabama: “It was just a life lesson about this guy’s dignity.”