Ken Sterling Poulsen is a former utility in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1967 season. Listed at 6' 1", 190 lb., he batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Little is known about this player who made a modest contribution as a member of the 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox team. Poulsen played three years of varsity baseball at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, where he helped his team won the championship of the West Valley League each of those three years, being named a first-team all-star in the league and third-team all-star on the All-City team. He was selected by Boston in the third round of the 1965 draft and debuted with the big team on July 3, 1967. Poulsen gained his promotion as a replacement for Dalton Jones, who had to report for two weeks of Army reserve duty at Camp Drum in New York. The departure of Jones reflected a common occurrence during the Vietnam War era. Poulsen appeared in five games with the Sox, hitting a double in five at-bats for a .200 batting average without runs or RBIs. 

August 4th, 1947 in Van Nuys  /  Died:   Dec 28th, 2017