Carroll Wilson Rasin

Carroll Wilson Raisin was a Democratic politician from Baltimore. In the early 20th century, Raisin participated in establishing the Federal League of professional baseball. He helped establish the Baltimore Terrapins in 1914. While the Federal League ultimately failed, the Terrapins did contribute to Baltimore Orioles owner Jack Dunn's decision to sell Babe Ruth's contract.

Carroll Wilson Raisin in "The House That George Built"
Carroll Wilson Raisin did not have sufficient financial means to establish a Federal League team in Baltimore. George Ruth blamed Raisin's failure to establish a new team for the fact that he never achieved Major League greatness. Even in 1941, Ruth complained to H.L. Mencken that if Raisin had established a new team, then Jack Dunn, owner of the Baltimore Orioles, Ruth's first team, would have been financially strapped enough to sell Ruth's contract.

Thus, Ruth fondly remembered Raisin, a man who never met Ruth, and never consciously wronged him, as "Carroll Wilson Chickenshit Raisin".