Aaron Boone has slowly but surely made Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre feel like he belongs back in uniform with the Yankees.

That process started in 2024 when Boone extended an invite to the legendary Yankees manager to attend spring training as a guest, with Torre initially reluctant — both to attend and to again put on the pinstripes.

But Torre soon relented and enjoyed the experience so much he was back this past spring. Boone even convinced Torre to go to the mound and make a pitching change during a Grapefruit League game.

“I think he loved it, and I know our guys love being around him,” Boone said Tuesday.

Boone, in his eighth season as manager, toward the end of this spring had another idea: making Torre, now 84, a part of his staff for the All-Star Game, scheduled for July 15 at Atlanta’s Truist Park.

After first checking with Major League Baseball — which quickly approved the idea as Torre, after his managing days, worked from 2011-14 as the league’s executive vice president of baseball operations and as its chief baseball officer from 2014-20 before transitioning to his current role as a special assistant to commissioner Rob Manfred — Boone gave Torre a call.

“I said, ‘You don’t have to answer this right now. Just hear me out,’ ” Boone said. “I asked him would he consider coming, and right away, he was like, ‘Yes!’ And seemed really excited about it. He seemed moved by it, which could not have gone better in my eyes. So I’m excited to have the skipper with us.”

The game being in Atlanta has added significance for Torre, who played and managed in the city. After the Yankees dropped the first two games of the 1996 World Series to Atlanta at old Yankee Stadium, Torre famously told impetuous owner George Steinbrenner not to worry.

“Atlanta’s my town,” Torre said then. “We’re going to go 3-0 there, then come back to New York and win it.”

Just how it played out as the Yankees captured their first title since 1978 and the first of four that Torre won while managing in the Bronx from 1996-2007.

Boone, by virtue of leading the Yankees to the American League pennant last season, was awarded the honor of managing the AL All-Star team (Dave Roberts of the world champion Dodgers will manager the NL squad). In addition to Torre serving as an honorary coach, Boone also named Cleveland’s Steven Vogt to his staff.

The rest of Boone’s current staff with the Yankees — bench coach Brad Ausmus, pitching coach Matt Blake, hitting coach James Rowson, etc. — will also join him in Atlanta, as will head trainer Tim Lentych.

“Really excited about it,” Boone said. “Obviously, the All-Star break’s a time where a lot of us coaches, managers, players . . . you look forward to those few days off. I am thrilled to be going, and I know our staff is too. For a lot of those guys, in a lot of ways, it’ll be the experience of a lifetime to get to be in an All-Star Game, around the greatest in the world to do it.”