I'd be curious to see a poll in NY asking if his number should be retired by the Red Sox. I'm willing to bet the NY numbers would be a higher percentage in favor.
I also poked around this page
http://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/major-league-baseball-retired-uniforms.shtml to see if there were any teams that were making a mockery of retired numbers. Between all the teams there are 191 retired numbers (I'm only counting Jackie Robinson once).
-Of those 191, 130 are Hall of Famers
-34 are managers/broadcasters and executives. The two odd ones are Johnny Oates - for sentimental reasons, I guess (506-476 career record - though died from brain cancer, and Jimmie Reese who was Babe Ruth's roommate?
-Of the remaining 26 - 11 have at least a cursory discussion for Hall of Fame consideration: Dale Murphy, Tim Raines, Billy Pierce, Dave Concepcion, Mel Harder, Don Mattingly, Andy Pettitte, Bernie Williams, Ron Guidry, Thurman Munson and Steve Garvey. Dwight Evans fans definitely have an argument by those standards since his qualifications are at least at the upper tier of this list, while his longevity with his team is unmatched.
-The remaining 15 are: Luis Gonzalez, Johnny Pesky, Harold Baines, Paul Konerko, Willie Horton, Jose Cruz, Jim Umbricht, Mike Scott, Don Wilson, Larry Dierker, Jim Gilliam, Jorge Posada, Randy Jones, Rusty Staub, and Frank White.
Surprisingly 10 teams have as many or more than the Red Sox (Braves, White Sox, Tigers, Astros/Colt 45's, Dodgers, Yankees, Phillies, Pirates, Giants, and Cardinals.
-The Indians have a retired "455" to commemorate their consecutive sell out streak. Thank god Lucky and the Dentist are out of power.
-The Rays have Wade Boggs and Don Zimmer. That's about par for the course for that franchise.
-The Mariners, very strangely have no one retired yet. Edgar and RJ certainly should already be up there (RJ is up there as D-back), and I'm sure Griffey will in the next year or two.
Here is the list of players who were elected to the Hall by the writers whose players numbers haven't been retired.
A's - Al Simmons, Mickey Cochrane
Yankees - Red Ruffing and Herb Pennock
Phillies - Grover Alexander
Tigers - Harry Heilmann
Cards - George Sisler, Joe Medwick, Frankie Frisch
Twins/Senators - Walter Johnson
Braves - Rabbit Maranville
Dodgers - Dazzy Vance
Indians - Early Winn
Red Sox - Jimmie Foxx and Wade Boggs
No affiliation - Cy Young
Several of those players played on different team names or cities, so may not seem as sexy to the fan base (Simmons and Cochrane were in Philly, Pennock was a "Highlander,", Sisler was a Brown, Maranville was a Boston Brave, and Winn was a Spider.
Aside from Walter Johnson and CY Young whose original teams no longer exist, are there two more gaping holes than Jimmie Foxx and Wade Boggs?