Wow, you're related to Carroll? For a time, he was arguably the best catcher in baseball. Carroll still holds the record for most hits in a doubleheader (with 9, tied with a few other players), and might hold others that I don't know of. Great player, but got hurt young.
I've seen pages of baseball stats on him- which are meaningless to me. Thanks for shedding some light on his career for me- it means a lot.
After he got out of baseball, he had a shipping business in San Francisco, until he passed away in 1904. He died of heart disease at about the same age that I had a bypass. Runs in the family, I guess.
Was he injured? Do you have any more info on this?