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Frank WakefieldTed, I have only one SLer with a Hindu back, Molesworth, Birmingham. So no help with your list.
George, you're with the majority thinking Shaughnessy is more difficult to locate... he just wasn't for me. Since he was prominent in baseball for many years, folks gathered his cards while the others were subject to being discarded. So that would have put a bit of demand on them, but increased their survivability. One may well offset the other.
I had a near set of 512... and when I was gathering them, I decided that I needed to go for the SLers early on. Hart Little Rock was the 41st one I obtained, Archie Persons was the 42nd, LaFitte was the 43rd, Helm was the 44th, Foster the 45th, McCauley the 46th, Cranston the 47th, and Lipe was the 48th. I had found other Lipe cards that were either in too good of a condition for me to collect, or much too worn.
I tried to find Revelle and Breitenstein early on, so I gathered those two before I tried to get the SLers complete. Both had interesting careers. So maybe they're among the more difficult...
I think Persons and Foster are among the most difficult.