Luther Williams Field, baseball stadium in Macon, Georgia, United States
Luther Williams Field is a baseball stadium in Macon, Georgia, built in 1929 on an earlier ballpark site and the centerpiece of Central City Park. Its original covered grandstand remains, now under a tin roof that replaced the wooden one, and a black iron gate reading "Macon Base Ball Park" surrounds the field.
The stadium opened in 1929, making it one of the oldest still-used baseball parks in the country. Over the following decades it hosted many players who later moved up to the major leagues, and it survived periods when minor league baseball nearly disappeared from the region.
The field is home to the Macon Bacon, a wood-bat collegiate summer team in the Coastal Plain League. The black iron gate at the entrance reads "Macon Base Ball Park." The park is named for Luther Williams, the mayor at its 1929 opening, whose family came from South Wales and who pushed to bring baseball to Macon.
The park sits near downtown Macon and is easy to reach on foot or by car from the city center. Visiting during a scheduled game is the best way to see the place in full use, as the grounds are not always open outside of game days.
The park was named after Luther Williams, a mayor of Macon who backed its construction in the late 1920s. Some of the original wooden structure from that era is still visible in the grandstands today, making it a rare example of early 20th-century ballpark design that is still in active use.
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