A Macon kid became an Atlanta Braves player for a day. Here’s how it happened

A year ago, 12-year-old Jackson Hall of Macon learned he had cancer and had to undergo treatment.

This month, he got to be a member of the Atlanta Braves for a day.

Hall was chosen to be part of the Make-A-Wish program and toured the Braves’ stadium with his favorite player, third baseman Austin Riley, as a tour guide. The tour was recorded as part of ESPN’s ‘Your Wish’ program and aired on SportsCenter Monday morning.

“I was like, ‘Hmmm, what should I do?’” Hall said in the video about his wish. “I kind of knew I wanted to do baseball.”

The tour included a visit to the Braves’ clubhouse, where Hall had his own personalized locker next to Dansby Swanson’s. Hall also received his own jersey and a replica World Series ring, meeting other Braves players and coaches along the way.

“You got it all, everything we got, you got,” Swanson said to Hall in the video.

Hall’s visit came after a long battle with non-Hodgkin’s B-cell lymphoma at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis. After more than two months of chemotherapy and general treatment, the tumors on Hall’s liver were gone and he returned to Macon.

The wish was granted this year when Hall was taken to Mercer University for a supposed indoor baseball practice. Instead of warm-up swings and practice throws, Hall was greeted with a message from Riley on a jumbotron at Mercer telling him he would become an Atlanta Brave for a day.