How are wooden baseball bats so durable?

Question

In the MLB there are 250lb+ men who hit the ball with exit velocities over 100mph and yet the bat doesn’t shatter into pieces. I know sometimes the bats do crack, but most of the time they are fine. How?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

Also they DO break… more than you might think. In the 2008 season MLB had about 2000 baseball bat breaks.