Sliding Mitts
Slide in style with 14 baseball sliding mitt designs, from the Ice Cream cone series to faith crosses and novelty prints. Hard-shell hand protection with the drip, in youth and adult sizes.
A sliding mitt is the most-overlooked piece of baseball gear, right up until a kid comes home from travel ball asking for one because everyone else on the team has one. It is a padded mitt worn on the hand that reaches the base first, and it keeps fingers, wrist and thumb from jamming on a head-first slide. We carry 14 designs from Elite Athletic Gear, all in youth and adult sizes, all neoprene with hard-shell impact protection, at $59.99 each.
The best baseball sliding mitts, by design family
If you are picking one and want the short version:
- Most popular look: the Ice Cream series, a waffle-cone palm with a contrast cap on top. Six colorways, and our biggest design family.
- For a faith-based player: Faith Cross Black ($59.99), an embroidered white cross with scripture printed on the cuff.
- For the no-nonsense type: Nobody Cares. Work Harder. ($59.99), the slogan embroidered on solid black.
- Loudest on the field: Money or Donuts ($59.99), full-print uppers that get noticed from the dugout.
- Every design fits the same way: either hand, youth or adult, velcro strap. Size is the only fit decision you have to make.
The 14 designs we carry
The catalog covers three design families.
Ice Cream series (6 designs)
The signature look, shaped like a cone with a waffle-textured palm and a contrast cap on top. Available in White, Blue, Pink, Royal, Red and Black. All six are $59.99. Browse them together in Ice Cream Sliding Mitts.
Faith designs (3 designs)
For players whose faith shows up in their game. Faith Cross Black puts an embroidered white cross on the palm with scripture on the cuff, Cotton Candy Cross is a pink cross on blue, and God is Greater Than The Highs and Lows is black with a purple mountain graphic. All three are $59.99, and there is a wider Christian baseball gear range in the same designs.
Statement and novelty prints (5 designs)
Nobody Cares. Work Harder. is the embroidered slogan on solid black. Money is a cash-print upper, Donuts is a frosted-donut print, Blue Sprinkles is blue with a multicolor sprinkle pattern, and Old Glory is a blue base with white stars and red-and-white stripes. All five are $59.99.
Sizing and construction
- Youth and adult sizes on every design
- Neoprene construction with hard-shell impact protection over the wrist and palm
- Velcro wrist strap that adjusts to a snug fit
- Fits either hand. Wear it on the hand that reaches the base first, usually your non-throwing hand
- $59.99 for every design
How to pick one
Size before design. Most kids under 12 wear youth, and older players wear adult. Not sure which hand or size? Our guide What Is a Sliding Mitt? answers both, with a cheat sheet. A mitt that slides around on the wrist does not protect the hand it is strapped to, so get the size right and then let the player pick the print.
Let the player choose the design. This is gear a kid wears because they want to be seen in it. The Ice Cream series is what most of them ask for, but a player who has been running the same solid black glove for two seasons is telling you something about which one to buy.
One mitt covers the season. These are not a per-game consumable. One mitt, sized right and spot-cleaned, lasts through a full travel-ball year.
What you pay
$59.99 for every design. All 14 share the same neoprene shell, the same hard-shell protection and the same youth and adult sizes, so the price never changes the protection. Pick the design the player will be proud to wear.
If you are buying for a team, every design is the same price and fits either hand, so each player can pick their own print.
Care
Spot-clean with mild soap and a damp cloth, then air-dry. Do not put a sliding mitt in the washer or dryer. The hard-shell padding does not survive machine cycles.
Round Out the On-Field Look
Who buys sliding mitts
Parents buying for a travel-ball player
The most common buyer here, usually after a kid came home asking for one because the whole team wears them. Let the player pick the print, you pick the size. Pair it with a headband or wristband in the same style if you want it to feel like a full gift rather than one piece of gear.
High school and college base-stealers
Players who steal enough to have already jammed a finger once. This group tends to go for the solid and statement designs over the novelty prints, and buys a second mitt when the first one wears through a season.
Coaches stocking the team bag
Every design is the same price and fits either hand, and youth and adult sizes across the board mean one order covers a full roster.
The player building a look
Sliding mitts are as much style as protection for this buyer. The Ice Cream series is the anchor, and the rest of the range lives in Baseball Drip.
All 14 designs are in youth and adult sizes and ship from stock.
