[2] Originally called Howard J. Lamade Memorial Field, the ballpark opened for the 1959 tournament.
[4] The younger Lamade was a vice president at Grit Publishing, and served on the board of directors for Little League Baseball in the 1950s.
[2] The ballpark received its current name in 1968, when the original wood and steel stands were replaced with a concrete stadium.
[2] On August 19, 2011, Lamade Stadium set an attendance record for the game between La Grange, Kentucky, and Clinton County, Pennsylvania, with 41,848 people in the stands and on the hill.
[6] It was later broken on August 29, 2015, when Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, defeated Pearland, Texas, with 45,716 in attendance.