Abstract: A baseball bat which meets Major League specifications is fabricated from porous red oak wood. The pores of the handle portion of the bat contain an impregnation oil. The resultant bat provides greater ball-hitting power while having greater resistance to breakage. The process for producing the bat involves slow and uniform drying of individual hardwood billets under conditions which provide non-warped dry billets having 4%-8% H2O. The dry billet is then shaped to the bat configuration and impregnated with a penetrating oil while standing upright in a vacuum/pressure chamber.