BOSTON — The Red Sox want to host the All-Star Game in 2012 for the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park, and have officially asked Major League Baseball to award Boston the honor of hosting the lucrative three-day event.

“We have made a request to have another All-Star Game at Fenway Park,” Red Sox president and chief executive officer Larry Lucchino said today, “in light of the 100th-year anniversary and the changes that have taken place here.”

Lucchino made the announcement while speaking to a small group after the team had announced the changes it will be making at Fenway this offseason. The Red Sox — under the ownership group headed by Lucchino, John Henry and Tom Werner — have made improvements and updates at Fenway each winter since purchasing the team in 2002, with the work — more than $100 million worth — scheduled to be completed by the beginning of the 2012 season.

Baseball has awarded the All-Star Game to St. Louis in 2009, and Anaheim in 2010, but the decisions on subsequent years are still up in the air. The Red Sox can be expected to lobby hard for the rights to the 2012 game, and failing that, perhaps one of the surrounding years.

“That issue is resolved by the commissioner’s office, above my pay grade,” Lucchino joked.

The Sox last hosted the All-Star Game in 1999, which was billed as the last All-Star Game of the 20th century. It was highlighted by Ted Williams throwing out the first pitch and Pedro Martinez striking out five batters in two innings of a 4-1 American League victory

The All-Star Game was played at Fenway in 1961 (a 1-1 tie) and in 1946 (a 12-0 American League victory).

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