High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paul Bernard Krichell (December 19, 1882 – June 4, 1957) was a Major League Baseball catcher, best known for being the head scout for the New York Yankees for 37 years until his death. Krichell`s talent evaluations and signings played a key role in building up the Yankees` run of success from the Murderers` Row teams of the 1920s to the 1950s teams led by Casey Stengel.