![]() ![]() “Instead of getting on stage somewhere and doing what I was born to do, I was being wheeled in for surgery at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville … and the doctors had warned me that even with this surgery – it was just to make sure that I could talk again – but there was a high likelihood that my singing voice would never be the same.” But just as his career really began to take off, West knew something wasn’t right with his voice. WATCH NOW: "This Is My Story with Matthew West"Īs he matured and the path of becoming a professional athlete began to dwindle, West turned more and more often to music, a journey that was beginning to provide numerous successes. ![]() "Like, 'Oh, OK, so just like my dream of baseball is over, now this thing that I was chasing after is over." "It kind of put some really negative thoughts in my head," West said. Instead, that latter tract began to work out just fine - until his most important tool was almost taken away from him. “So, I'm thankful for the dream that didn't come true.” “So, I remember I cut that article out, took it with me to all my classes and when my teachers asked me why I wasn't doing my work, I slid that article across the desk and I said, ‘It's because I'm going pro.’ It turns out I was so good at baseball that I'm sitting here talking about how I got into music. “The Chicago Sun-Times newspaper put out a list on the back page on the sports page of all the top college prospects, and I saw my name at the top of the list for first baseman,” West recalled. In fact, seeing his name in print as a senior in high school while growing up in the Chicago suburbs caused him to believe he didn’t need to worry about anything else. West thought he'd be hitting home runs and turning double plays in the major leagues. ![]()
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