Up
 on the blog today we have a “not so missing” 1976 card for former 
Montreal Expos outfielder Bombo Rivera, who made his Big League debut in
 1975 with five games:
Rivera hit .111 in that brief time up in the Majors, going 1-for-nine with a run scored while also collecting two base on balls.
He would play in 68 games in 1976 for the Expos, hitting a very 
respectable .276 with 51 hits over 185 at-bats, with 22 runs scored and 
19 RBIs.
After a full 1977 season in the Minors, he was back in the Majors for 
1978, now with the Minnesota Twins, where he would play over the next 
three seasons, hitting .271, .281 and .221 before spending all of 1981 
in the Minors again.
In 1982, still only 29 years of age, he was back in the Big Leagues, 
though now with the Kansas City Royals, where he’d appear in only five 
games, the last five of his career it turned out, as he’d hit .100 with 
one hit over 10 at-bats.
Far from retiring, he took his talents to both Japan and Mexico, where 
he ended up playing another six seasons, through 1988, finally retiring 
as an active player.
Overall, for his MLB career, he finished with a .265 average over 335 
games, with 220 hits in 831 at-bats, with 109 runs scored and 83 RBIs 
between 1975 and 1982.
