The Youngstown Indians were a minor league baseball club that competed during the 1909 season in the Ohio-Pennsylvania League. The team showed great promise at the outset of the season but finished with a disappointing 46–78 record, placing last in the league. The league championship that year went to an Akron franchise, which closed the season with a 81–40 record.
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