John E. "Scrappy" Carroll (August 27, 1860 – November 14, 1942) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball.

[3] The following season, he received his final major league shot, with the American Association's Cleveland Blues.

He started in right field on August 3, which was Cleveland's first major league Sunday game.

According to an account of Cleveland's 1887 season, Carroll "caught the attention of the kranks at the ball park one sunny afternoon", when he wore "a pair of colored spectacles.

[3] That season, he played 42 games for the Western League's Minneapolis Minnies, batting .237 with a team-leading 14 stolen bases.