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Jays’ Donaldson and Reggie Jackson: Students of the swing

TAMPA — It started out as a friendly greeting from one crusher of the baseball to another.

But if there wasn’t a baseball game to be played on Saturday afternoon, Josh Donaldson and Reggie Jackson may have never left the batting cage at George Steinbrenner Field.

There was the 70-year-old Hall of Famer and current special adviser to the Yankees picking the brain of the 2015 American League MVP and one of the purest hitters in the game. And it soon became clear that at a rather serious level, Jackson has the utmost respect and appreciation for Donaldson’s swing.