After looking at this list further, and scans of the cards, I came up with the following:
We start at 476 which is 524 - the 48 SL's.
Magee and Doyle are corrected errors - 474
Brown/Klienow/Smith are text (team) changes only, the portraits are identical.
Now we're at 471
Demitt/Dahlen/O'hara/Lundgren/Elberfield are all identical portraits with team changes on the uniform.
Now we're down to 466
Cobb/Chance/Mathewson/Evers/Chase/Chase are varying degrees of color/uniform/cropping changes. Interestingly, they are the 6 super prints.
That gets us to 460.
It also leaves the Bender unaccounted for. Uniform/background/cropping are all different. A more extreme example of that is the Brown Cubs pitching.
So, we made it to the advertised set number of "460" by eliminating the printing errors, team changes, and super prints. That seems like a pretty tidy grouping.
I'll go out on a limb and say that was the intent of the printers when they advertised 460 "different" subjects. So, out on a limb again, the Bender (and Brown Cubs) would have been intended as a "different" subjects in the 460 set.
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