Why can a baseball take so many hits without ripping apart?

The force applied by a baseball bat is quite powerful, and baseballs last a long time, including games and practice. Just wondering about the physics of a baseball that makes it last through so many hits, bounces, skips, etc.





In terms of the materials and assemblage of the baseball, please.|||A standard baseball has a cork or rubber core to it; it's roughly the size of a quarter. Around the core are layers of yarn and twine, sometimes wool. Two peanut-shaped cowhide leather covers are then stitched together with 108 stitches of waxed red cotton thread; rolled stitching is flatter and creates less air-resistance. Baseballs usually weigh no less than five ounces and are no less than nine inches in diameter.|||I think it has something to do with the mud the use to make it. But yea dont tell Roy Hobbs that, heil tear it apart with wonder boy.|||In major league baseball, they replace the ball every hit, because the ball does NOT maintain itself after a hit.





The balls you play with in the practice field or in child games are not up to "regulation" standards, they just hold together with glue, rubber, plastic, and of course the cloth and thread on the outside.|||They really don't last that long. They replace balls an average of like 25 balls per game.|||there are to many variables for this question...there are some factors that make the baseball more vulnerable to a "smacking" but overall there is no way to have an exact number of hits a baseball can take before it brakes apart...