Pete Rose is Sentenced On this day, in 1990 Pete Rose, baseball's career hit leader, was sentenced by Judge Arthur S. Spiegel to five months in a Federal correctional institution for filing false income-tax returns. July 19, 1990 Sport: Baseball Trivia What Are the Five Events That Make Up the Modern Olympic Pentathon? Which Nations Won the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals the Last Time Baseball Was an Olympic Sport? sports in this article Baseball tags in this article Fan On This Day SportsEngine