GaryMrMets
01-30-2003, 02:18 AM
Judge: Rose Should Be in Hall of Fame
NEW YORK -- The federal judge who sent Pete Rose to prison thinks the banned former star belongs in the Hall of Fame.
Rose was sentenced in 1990 to five months in prison, three months in a halfway house and 1,000 hours of community service by U.S. District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel following a guilty plea to two felony counts of failure to report income.
The career hits leader is in tax trouble again. Rose owes $151,689 in federal taxes from 1998, according to the Los Angeles County Recorder's Office. The Internal Revenue Service has filed a lien on a home he owns in suburban Los Angeles, property tax records show.
"I have no knowledge about his current issues other than what I read in the papers,'' Spiegel said during a telephone interview from his office in Cincinnati. "But I think he should be in the Hall of Fame for his accomplishments on the ballfield.''
Rose has been negotiating with baseball commissioner Bud Selig to gain reinstatement. As long as he's on the permanently banned list, he's ineligible for the U.S. Hall of Fame.
NEW YORK -- The federal judge who sent Pete Rose to prison thinks the banned former star belongs in the Hall of Fame.
Rose was sentenced in 1990 to five months in prison, three months in a halfway house and 1,000 hours of community service by U.S. District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel following a guilty plea to two felony counts of failure to report income.
The career hits leader is in tax trouble again. Rose owes $151,689 in federal taxes from 1998, according to the Los Angeles County Recorder's Office. The Internal Revenue Service has filed a lien on a home he owns in suburban Los Angeles, property tax records show.
"I have no knowledge about his current issues other than what I read in the papers,'' Spiegel said during a telephone interview from his office in Cincinnati. "But I think he should be in the Hall of Fame for his accomplishments on the ballfield.''
Rose has been negotiating with baseball commissioner Bud Selig to gain reinstatement. As long as he's on the permanently banned list, he's ineligible for the U.S. Hall of Fame.