Amatuer Baseball Shoot?

My 53 yo brother wants me to shoot an upcoming baseball game of his,
and I'm looking for story line and/or shot suggestions to make the
final product moderately interesting.

Challenges as I see them:
* I don't know any of the guys and really don't want to be in their
faces, since not everybody enjoys being shot at close range.
* One camera, without tripod (too much stuff on my motorcycle already,
so I can't take the tripod.)
* I don't know that there will be any bleachers present; if there are,
they will likely be low and behind a chain link fence.

I've thought about two major directions to take this:
1) Make it about him, with b-roll and other minor clips taken of his
teammates (and opponents?) playing.
2) Concentrate on the team. Perhaps he'd like to share mpgs with the
others (and that's being optimist that this will turn out at all.)

Perhaps I could plant my minidisc recorder near/under the bench from
which to take some interesting audio clips.

Where should I shoot from? Behind the 1st base line? Behind the
batter? Behind the CF fence? Behind their dugout?

I welcome your thoughts/suggestions.

DanR...

You should decide ahead of time if you'll need to capture the whole game and
keep that continuity or if you only need high-lights. If the latter you'll
have the freedom to move around and get more interesting shots. (or change
between innings) At the least get a monopod (fairly portable) for the long
shots. Shaky-cam is no good for sports.
Do interviews pre and post game.
Good idea to use your minidisk near the plate for bat-crack etc. sounds. Use
a directional mic if you can. But if you start / stop the camera it will be
a challenge to sync that audio up. This idea may sound a bit silly but you
could slate the minidisk with time of day from your watch. Then from time to
time shoot the image of your watch for sync purposes.