Cleveland ? Some of the 50 Lithuanian college students stranded here last month when their summer work-exchange jobs fell through have found a home at Jacobs Field.

Cleveland SportService, the company responsible for concessions at the stadium, hired 15 of the students as vendors. Instead of cleaning hotel rooms as they had anticipated, they’re selling peanuts, Cracker Jack and soda at America’s favorite pastime.

“They speak English and they know our money,” said Marie Eslick, human resources manager for SportService. “The only thing they didn’t know was baseball.”

Students are living with Lithuanian-Americans or in apartments furnished with donations from the community. Each paid as much as $700 to join the summer jobs program and had additional transportation and related costs.