Howard J. Lamade Stadium

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Howard J. Lamade Stadium is a baseball stadium in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Each year, it hosts the Little League World Series, along with Little League Volunteer Stadium. Lamade Stadium was built in 1959 and holds 40,000 people, most of whom sit on the outfield berms. It is the largest non–Major League Baseball stadium. The field is two-thirds the size of a professional field, with 60ft basepaths, a 46ft mound, and after the change in 2006, outfield fences at 225ft, forming one-fourth of a true circle.RenovationsLights were added in 1992 to facilitate night game play in conjunction with expansion of the series to round robin play.In 2006, the fences were moved back 20ft to 225ft to all fields. This was done because home runs were becoming too common. Other renovations included the extension of the stadium roofs to the end of the grandstands and additional seating with backing were added in place of bleacher seating.In August 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. It was later broken on August 29, 2015 when Lewisberry, Pennsylvania defeated Pearland, Texas with 45,716 in attendance.