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

Hitting the ball with the grain of the wood the correct way. Like how a stack of papers won’t bend along the edge, but will bend easily across the sheet.