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Mark Bomback
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 423 of 1218 players
Bomback
Mark Vincent Bomback
Born: April 14, 1953 at Portsmouth, Va.
Throws: Right Bats: Right
Height: 5.11 Weight: 170

Mark Bomback was the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup on April 14, 2011.

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First Mets game: April 12, 1980
Last Mets game: October 4, 1980

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Mike
Bomback won 20 games in the minors once (strange because guys pitching that well are normally up to the big leagues.)

Bomback was known (for a short while) as the stopper because he stopped about 5 or 6 losing streaks.

Jim Snedeker
November 15, 2001
Mark's 10 wins led the Mets pitching staff in 1980.

Boy, those were the days.

Charles
January 31, 2002
Not that he was going to the Hall of Fame, but I'll never understand why the Mets got rid of him after only one season. despite a high ERA for that time, he was probably one of the top two (if not the to) pitchers on that 1980 staff.

Mr. Sparkle
April 18, 2002
Hey if you could get a talent like Charlie Puleo you'd trade Bomback too. After all Puleo was traded to get Seaver back so you could look at is as Bomback for Seaver!

I did like Bomback at the time. The Mets were horrible in 1980 and he at least brought a hope of victory when he took the mound. He was OK.

Bill Deegan
June 6, 2002
I saw Mark pitch a two hit shut out against the Phillies in early 1980 at Shea. Thought at the time that we really had a keeper.

Lawrence A. Goldberg
August 6, 2002
After attending college for 4 years in the Boston area, I returned to New York in August, 1980. I missed my Mets, and desperately needed to attend a game. (I went to plenty of Red Sox games between '76 and '80, but the crowds up there were so anti-New York---not just anti-Yankee---that I ended up hoping that the Sox would lose, particularly to the Yankees). Anyway, I got to see the Mets only double-digit winner for 1980, Mark Bomback, pitch a game against the Giants on August 20. Well, let's see. The Mets lost 2-1, and Bomback broke slugger Jack Clark's arm with an errant fastball. Bomback lost the decision, but would ultimately get his 10th win later in the year.

Jason Bomback
April 14, 2003
My uncle Mark loves his baseball. He continues to pitch in the over 35 and over 50 community baseball leagues. Although the speed isn't there, his control and curve fares well. He still has great pitches! Of course he needs a month or two to recover! Ha ha. Love ya man, JB

Kiwiwriter
July 5, 2004
I remember Mark Bomback's two-hit shutout against the Phillies. I was there. I thought he would be the Mets' answer to Ron Guidry.

Of course, that was his first and second turns through the National League, in which he went 9-3. After that, the rest of the National League figured out how to hit him, and he finished 1-5, earning his "Boom-Boom" nickname.

He probably would not have got the ticket out of town if he hadn't asked for more money. But he probably would not have fared well in New York

fatclemenenza
July 27, 2012
The only thing I remember about Mark Bomback, other that the fact that he wasn't very good, was Jerry Koosman joking that Bomback was a disgrace to Jerry's number (36)!

Craig Dougherty
September 26, 2013
I watched Mark throw a one hitter when I was playing right field in Kingsville, Texas circa 1964-65 for a youth league team (10-12 year olds). He had a guy named Possum Turcock (he was so short he had no strike zone and he walked half the time) come up to the plate from the opposing team, Turcock stuck his bat out on a screaming side arm fast ball; all it did was hit the bat, it looped a Texas Leaguer just over the second baseman's head and perfectly in front of me just far enough away to screw his no-hitter. I could not get to it on the dead run. I always felt bad about that, but it was perfectly placed, even if Turcocks' eyes were closed when he connected. He didn't even swing, the ball was thrown so hard that it went that far on contact.

His brother Hiram was the best 1st Baseman I ever saw for his age, he made a put out at first on a long infield throw from shortstop once by doing the complete splits off the first base bag and catching the ball forward of his right foot; he was a southpaw. I have never seen a first baseman ever duplicate that play in the minors or the majors; he was 12 when he did that!

We were coached by Mr. Huff. If anyone doubts this, contact Ruben Soliz, he still lives in the Kingsville, Texas area. His dad was stationed with mine at NAS Kingsville with the US Navy.








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