Mound Clay
When stakes are high and your game comes down to a single pitch, you'll want the best mound in the game, and that starts with the best mound clay in the game. Here are Valley Athletics, we've put together a list of our top tier mound clay selections, so that you have all your information in one place. Once you've decided which mound clay will be perfect for your field, reach out to one of our acclaimed reps to help get it onto your field in time for the season, so that you and your players can play their best out there and take home the win!
Louisville Slugger® Pitchers Mound Clay™ is screened, heavy clay with a natural red color. This heavy clay has higher clay content than average products on the market. It can be used in conjunction with other products or as a stand-alone, everyday maintenance clay. This clay can be used to construct, rebuild, or repair pitcher’s mounds, and catcher’s and batter’s boxes. The design philosophy behind using mound clay to build your high stress areas is to increase longevity, increase durability, and increase compaction. Natural red in color, Louisville Slugger® Pitchers Mound Clay™ gives high stress areas the durability that professional groundskeepers require. Though it has been designed to meet the performance standards of elite programs, this material easily tamps into holes, provides greater durability, and reduces maintenance for all levels of play. In addition to being a mound material, Mound Clay can be used to firm up the high stress areas of your infield. It is also ASTM approved.
Specifications:
Color: Natural Red
Weight: 64 pounds per cubic foot (dry)
Volume: 1 bag = 50 pounds = 0.78 cubic feet
Available In:
Bags: 50 pounds each, 40 bags per pallet
The wear and tear around mound and plate areas can create daunting work for groundskeepers and coaches. However, Turface Athletics® has come up with option that delivers high performance and value when constructing and maintaining mound and plate areas called Turface® 5-Star™ Packing Clay. It stands up to high levels of wear and traffic, and is durable enough to handle larger athletes without the challenges that come with managing other clays on the market. The clay-silt mixture bonds quickly and packs tightly to help streamline installation, and its highly durable, long-lasting performance and wear resistance will save you both time and money by not having to replace it as often. This high-density red clay with a high silt content comes pre-moistened and ready to use – just open the bag and pour! Turface® 5-Star™ Packing Clay is a good fit across different geographies and climates and suitable for all levels of play, so that you can enjoy the benefits of it no matter where you’re located.
Specifications:
Color: Red
Weight: 35 pounds per cubic foot (dry)
Volume: 1 bag = 50 pounds = 0.78 cubic feet
Available in:
Bags: 50 pounds each, 40 bags per pallet
Super Sacks: 2,000 pounds each
Pro’s Choice Pro Mound Packing Clay is a unique blue gumbo packing clay that has been specifically designed to form a solid subsurface in the mound and batter’s boxes that allows the players to “dig in” and establish footing without leaving large holes. It is exceptional when used to repair, rebuild, and construct a field’s pitching mound, batter’s boxes, and catcher’s box. The design philosophy behind using mound clay to build your high stress areas is to increase longevity, increase durability, and increase compaction. Pro’s Choice Pro Mound Packing Clay gives high stress areas the durability that professional groundskeepers require. Since it has been designed to meet the performance standards of elite programs, this material requires hydration to easily tamp it into holes, but provides the greatest durability. Mound Clay reduces maintenance for all levels of play. In addition to being a mound material, Mound Clay can be used to firm up the high stress areas of your infield.
Specifications:
Colors: Blue-Grey
Weight: 64 pounds per cubic foot (1.15 yards to 1 ton)
Volume: 1 bag = 50 pounds = 0.78 cubic feet
Available In:
Bags: 50 pounds each, 40 bags per pallet
Coverage Rates:
1 Bag = 9.25 sq ft at 1″ deep
2.65 Cubic Yards (2.35 tons) will cover 1000 sq. ft 1″ deep.
Play like the professionals with Turface® Professional Mound Clay, the mound clay that is preferred by professional and college teams. Made with a premier, 100% virgin clay that features high density for superior durability and unmatched resistance, this mound clay offers easy pliability and shaping on mounds or around home plate, making it ideal for shaping mounds and easy to mold them into just the right form. Installation is easy, too – just open the bag and you’re ready to go! Turface® Professional Mound Clay features a high level of durability in a range of climates, so that no matter where you’re located, it will help reduce wear and tear across a variety of fields. It comes available as shredded clay or in pre-formed bricks, and in your choice of red or gray clay. The red clay is more durable and possesses a high level of plasticity that helps it mold together easily, while the Gumbo Gray clay possesses a high level of tackiness that enhances its bonding strength. Whichever way you choose, you can’t go wrong with Turface® Professional Mound Clay!
Specifications:
Color: Red or Gumbo Gray
Weight: 43 pounds per cubic foot (dry)
Volume: 1 bag = 50 pounds = 0.78 cubic feet
Available In:
Bags: 50 pounds each, 40 bags per pallet
Valley Athletics Mound & Home Plate Kit™ is an all inclusive Mound and Home Plate repair and renovation package. It contains enough material do renovate a full size mound, both batters boxes, and the catchers box. Triple Play Mound & Home Plate Kit™ gives each level of groundskeeper an alternative to repairing their high maintenance areas easily. It comes with enough unfired clay bricks, mound clay, and conditioner to do a full sized mound, both batters boxes, and your catcher’s box. It is exceptional when used to repair, rebuild, and construct your field’s pitcher’s mound, batter’s boxes, and catcher’s box.
Each Kit Includes:
275 Unfired Clay Bricks
10 Bags of Valley Athletic Mound Clay (50 pounds each)
10 Bags of Triple Play Red Infield Conditioner (50 pounds each
TOTAL WEIGHT: 2,800 pounds
Build Your Mound and Plate Right! No two areas of the diamond receive more abuse and constant wear than the pitcher’s mound and the batter’s and catcher’s boxes. Make sure they are built and maintained properly with the best, virgin clay bricks in the industry. These high-density clay bricks are 100% pure virgin clay bricks that are designed to be durable and deliver long-lasting performance. They’re perfectly sized for building boxes and the mound from the ground up, and their pliable construction makes them easy to mold into just the right form, so that every mound is shaped and sized perfectly for your mound. Create foundations that are safer and give you more playable conditions with these unfired clay bricks, regardless of level of play. In order to retain proper moisture, they are packaged in water tight backs and come in sets of 8.
Specifications:
Color: Red or Grey
Dimensions: 2 ½” x 4″ x 8″
Available In:
8 brick sets
Pallets (304 unfired clay bricks per pallet)
Bulldogs Field Equipment’s Unfired Clay Bricks are an excellent choice for any baseball or softball mound. The bricks’ forms are moist and compressed, allowing for easy and fast repair of any work areas in the catcher’s box, batter’s box, and pitching mound. They’re perfectly sized for building boxes and the mound from the ground up, and their pliable construction makes them easy to mold into just the right form, so that every mound is shaped and sized perfectly for your mound. They’re made with a 30% sand, 36.5% silt, and 33.5$ clay compound, and feature a 1 to 1 silt to clay ratio. Evaluated for baseball/softball infieild use by Turf & Soil Diagnostics, you know that these unfired clay bricks are going to be high-quality.
Specifications:
Color: Brownish-Yellow
Weight: 7 pounds per unfired clay brick
Dimensions: 8″ x 4″ x 2 3/8″
Available in:
Pallets (350 unfired clay bricks per pallet)