Country Music Icon Billy Ray Cyrus Revealed How Neil Diamond Made Him Leave His MLB Dream Behind in 2020

Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus once revealed that his first dream was not to become a singer but a baseball player. He never thought he would do anything else but play baseball. He even had chosen the team of Major League Baseball that he was going to the player with the position he would play at.

But then, as fate would have it, something happened that changed his view completely. Music had made its way into his heart, which made him never look back at his dream of becoming a ballplayer. One coincidence had his entire life’s trajectory changed, and the singer could not be any happier about it.

Which Major League Baseball team Billy Ray Cyrus would have played for?

Years before Billy Ray Cyrus ever thought of becoming a country singer, he was a ballplayer. He already had a couple of major league teams in his mind and his preferred position. He even had a backup team he was going to play with if his first option didn’t work out.

“I was a ball player. I was going to be the catcher for the Cincinnati Reds,”?said Cyrus in 2020. “Or the Dodgers. That was my backup team, the Dodgers. I wanted to be Johnny Bench, but the Dodgers were scouting me.”

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An almost ball player of the Reds or Dodgers turned into a country musician. All because the tickets for a concert that he got coincidentally had the seed of music sown into him that was going to stay there forever.?

How did Neil Diamond change the course of Cyrus’ career?

In a meant-to-be way, as the Dodgers were scouting him, Cyrus won tickets for a Neil Diamond concert. The singer had won the tickets to Diamond’s concert on the radio. And since it was the first time he ever won anything, he knew that it was meant to be.?

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In Charleston, West Virginia, Billy Ray Cyrus found the purpose of his life as Neil Diamond made his way to Cyrus’ heart. At the time, he got to know that the only thing he was meant to do in his life. And it was to create music. So he did exactly that by changing his catcher mitt to buy a guitar.

Had Billy not become a musician, which team you would have liked him to play for? Let us know your answers in the comment section below.