Youngstown Indians
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The Youngstown Indians were a Minor League Baseball club that competed during the 1909 season in the Ohio–Pennsylvania League.[1] The team showed great promise at the outset of the season but finished with a disappointing 46–78 record, placing last in the league.[1] The league championship that year went to an Akron franchise, which closed the season with an 81–40 record.[2]
The short-lived Youngstown Indians team succeeded other minor league clubs in Youngstown, Ohio, including the championship Youngstown Ohio Works and Youngstown Champs.[3] The 1907 sale of the Ohio Works team to investors in Zanesville, Ohio, paved the way for the establishment of the Champs.[4] Like the Ohio Works club, which won two consecutive league championships, the Champs were sponsored by local industrial leader Joseph A. McDonald and his brother, Thomas.[5] The Champs won the 1907 championship of the Ohio–Pennsylvania League,[citation needed] but the following year, their season was cut short when the owners of the Youngstown franchise "threw up the sponge in mid-season".[1] In 1909, the newly established Youngstown Indians secured the backing of a stock company in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and were managed by W.R. Terry.[1]