It is the home of the Macon Bacon, a wood-bat collegiate summer baseball team in the Coastal Plain League.

[3] Luther Williams Field was used for location shooting in the 1976 film The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings in which it stood in for a fictional Negro leagues ballpark in St. Louis, Missouri.

[citation needed] It was also used as a location in 2012 for two motion pictures, the Harrison Ford movie 42, chronicling the baseball legend Jackie Robinson, and Clint Eastwood's Trouble with the Curve.

[4] The stadium was named for Macon's mayor at the time of its opening, Luther Williams, whose family had migrated from South Wales, UK in the latter 1800s.

Having an ardent love for athletics, he worked to bring baseball to Macon and helped get the stadium built.