Parke Carroll
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Parke Carroll was perhaps best known, in baseball circles, for his two-year stint as the General Manager of the Kansas City Athletics, from 1959-1960. During those two years, he engineered a few trades that sent key players to the New York Yankees, such as Bob Cerv and Ralph Terry, but his most notable deal came on December 11, 1959, in which Carroll sent Roger Maris to the Yankees along with two other players for Don Larsen (author of a World Series perfect game three years earlier), Marv Throneberry, Hank Bauer and Norm Siebern. With the aid of the short right-field porch in Yankee Stadium, Maris set a single-season homerun record with 61 homeruns in 1961, just two years after leaving the A's.
Carroll was fired at the end of the 1960 season, replaced by former Cleveland Indians GM Frank "Trader" Lane. He died of a heart attack in Kansas City, Missouri on February 17, 1961.
It should be noted that Carroll was not breaking new ground when sending players to New York; his predecessor, George Selkirk, had traded quality players such as Bobby Shantz, Clete Boyer, Harry "Suitcase" Simpson and Ryne Duren.
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