I grew up bowling in a 16-lane, family-run center in Berwyn, Illinois, and they had an old wooden ball on the shelf in the office. They're very cool to look at. As to worth, I would have no idea. I'm sure there can't be too many floating around out there, but then I'm not sure there's much of a market for them either. I found an old internet posting that stated a guy had seen some sell for as much as $200-400 back around 2007, but then he gave a link to an ebay auction that had it selling for under $100. I guess just like anything else, you're just going to have to see if you can stumble across the right buyer. Good luck.

My mother bought a wooden bowling ball for my father for Christmas a couple years ago.

It's really clean through the front, reads the midlane nicely, and has good hook on the backend but not too much snap so it's controllable.

Just kidding obviously.

I'm not sure how much she paid for it though - she only mentioned that she paid "quite a bit" because the man she bought it from was a family friend who needed the money.