Bomback played four Major League Baseball seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers, New York Mets and Toronto Blue Jays.

Over six seasons as a starting pitcher in the Bosox farm system, Bomback went 59–48 with a 4.21 earned run average and 681 strikeouts.

Pitching a single inning of "mop up duty" against the Minnesota Twins, Bomback allowed one hit (to Hall of Famer Rod Carew), and retired the other three batters he faced.

[2] Despite putting together an impressive 1979 season with the triple A Vancouver Canadians (22–7, 2.56 ERA, 151 SO), Bomback never returned to the majors with the Brewers.

Bomback was an early invite to Spring training,[3] and earned a job in the Mets' bullpen to start the 1980 season.

Following a poor performance by Hausman against the Philadelphia Phillies on April 22,[4] Bomback was given the opportunity to start despite three unimpressive relief appearances (5 earned runs in 5.2 innings pitched).

A July 29 victory over the Atlanta Braves, in which he held them scoreless through seven plus innings,[7] marked his return to the starting rotation for the remainder of the season.

He was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays at the end of Spring training for a player to be named later (Charlie Puleo) as something of a favor to Bomback.