Hank Aaron got his COVID vaccine shot on Tuesday -- and he did it in front of cameras in the hopes of inspiring other Black Americans to follow his lead.
The 86-year-old Hall of Famer masked up and went to the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta along with his wife Billye to receive the first of two doses of the Moderna vaccine.
"[It] makes me feel wonderful," Aaron told the Associated Press ... "I don’t have any qualms about it at all."
"I feel quite proud of myself for doing something like this.