luther williams ball park

This is 1 of Georgia's oldest baseball stadiums. It's still in excellent shape with tons of history everywhere.

Beautiful and historic park where the movie was made about the black baseball league. It is also located near nice places to eat and Central City Park.

Remember going with my parents when I was a child watching Pete Rose play second base. Saw Chipper Jones begin his career here playing shortstop. I hate it sits with no home team anymore. What a waste! I think it's the 3rd oldest ballpark in the country. Now it's used as a venue for country music shows.

Haven't been there in the park since 2008. Too bad it's owned by a dysfunctional city government that doesn't maintain it. The minor league Braves moved to another Georgia city in part due to lack of attendance and in part due to facilities. It was used as a set for several recent baseball movies (42 and Trouble With the Curve). Built in 1929 when they still spelled Base Ball as two words. Pete Rose and many other famous Reds played there as the Macon Peaches in the 1960s. There was also a black Macon Peaches team (separate league in the 40s-50s). It was the site of Macon's two unsuccessful attempts to set a World Record for largest kazoo ensemble (Macon is the birthplace of the kazoo -- based on an African folk instrument). It's part of Macon's Central City Park, long time home of the Georgia State Fair... once the site of horse racing and regattas on the river (before the erection of the levee in the 1930s). The park's entrance is marked with a memorial to the late Bennie Scott, the first black engineer for Norfolk Southern Railroad and a Macon Peach baseball player (shortstop). Mr. Scott was a true gentleman and a World War II vet and later a VFW and civic leader. He informed me that the park was the winter home of numerous traveling circuses for many years. The park opened in 1871 and still sees large crowds with the annual Cherry Blossom Festival each March.