The Titanic hit that fatal iceberg on the night he was born, but when Bill Hogan Jr. turns 100 years old April 14, the Lexington resident will be helping celebrate a more joyous centennial anniversary.

Born only six days before the Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway Park in 1912, Hogan has been asked to throw out the first pitch for the game on his birthday.

“I’d like to think I’m going to throw it farther than I am,’’ said Hogan, who’s been practicing for the first toss. “I’ll do the best that I can.’’

Hogan’s first pitch is one in a series of events the Red Sox have planned this season to celebrate Fenway’s 100th anniversary; it opened on April 20, 1912, when the Red Sox faced the New York Highlanders.

Hogan’s grandson, Bill Hogan IV, works for Fenway Sports Management, a sister company of the Red Sox doing marketing for the team, and he said his grandfather attended the announcement by the team promoting the centennial celebrations for the ballpark.

Attending that news media event helped his grandfather secure the opportunity to throw out the first pitch, said Hogan IV, who is 39 and calls his grandfather “Jr.’’

Family from the area and several states will be at Fenway Park to see Hogan’s toss, his grandson said.

“He’s been working on it,’’ Hogan IV said. “I think he’ll do great. He’s a big Red Sox fan, so this means the world to him, I know.’’

The elder Hogan got his start in baseball by playing the game as a child while growing up in Cambridge, where he was a member of the baseball team at Cambridge Latin High School, and went on to play second base at Boston College. He was also captain of the Boston College hockey team before graduating in 1933.

Hogan said he graduated from Harvard Law School and pursued what became a long career as a lawyer, and remains an honorary trustee of Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge.