  We find explicit probe D3-brane solutions in the infrared of the
Maldacena-Nunez background. The solutions describe deformed baryon vertices: q
external quarks are separated in spacetime from the remaining N-q. As the
separation is taken to infinity we recover known solutions describing infinite
confining strings in ${\mathcal{N}}=1$ gauge theory. We present results for the
mass of finite confining strings as a function of length. We also find probe
D2-brane solutions in a confining type IIA geometry, the reduction of a G_2
holonomy M theory background. The relation between these deformed baryons and
confining strings is not as straightforward.
