Career
Carroll was best known for his contributions to American football research. He was co-author of The Hidden Game of Football (with John Thorn and Pete Palmer), as well as Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League. Carroll was the author of more than twenty books, most notably Pro Football: When the Grass Was Real and Baseball Between the Lies.
His non-sports books included The Importance of Napoleon and The Battle of Stalingrad.
Carroll was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. He was a retired art and English teacher at McKeesport High School in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
