Question: What racist policy did the 1881 Major League Baseball batting champion support ?

text: List of Major League Baseball batting champions
National League
Ross Barnes ' .429 in 1876 set a single-season record that stood for a decade . Paul Hines won two consecutive NL batting titles in 1878 and 1879 . Hugh Duffy set the current single-season record when he batted .440 in 1894 . Willie Keeler won two consecutive NL batting titles in 1897 and 1898 . Honus Wagner was the first batter to win eight NL batting titles and won four consecutive titles during that run . Rogers Hornsby won seven NL batting titles , including six consecutively from 1920 to 1925 . Stan Musial won seven NL batting titles from 1943 to 1957 . Tony Gwynn won an record-tying eight NL batting titles from 1984 to 1997 . Albert Pujols won the closest NL batting race in 2003 .
In baseball, batting average (AVG) is a measure of a batter's success rate in achieving a hit during an at bat. In Major League Baseball (MLB), it is calculated by dividing a player's hits by his at bats (AB). In MLB, a player in each league[L] wins the batting title each season for having the highest batting average that year. The American League (AL) winner is known as the Rod Carew American League Batting Champion, while the National League (NL) leader is designated the Tony Gwynn National League Batting Champion. Under current rules, a player must have 3.1 plate appearances (PA) per team game (for a total of 502 over the current 162-game season) to qualify for the batting title. However, if a player's lead in AVG is sufficiently large that enough hitless at bats can be added to reach this requirement and the player still would have the highest batting average, he wins the title. Tony Gwynn, for example, had 159 hits in 451 ABs in 1996 (.353 average) but only 498 PAs. Gwynn's batting average would have dropped to .349 (159 hits in 455 ABs) with four hitless ABs added to reach the 502 PA requirement, but this would still have been higher than the next-highest eligible player (.344 average), so he was awarded the 1996 NL batting title. The first batting average champion in the NL was Ross Barnes; in the league's inaugural 1876 season, Barnes batted .429 for the Chicago White Stockings. The AL was established in 1901, and Hall of Fame second baseman Nap Lajoie led that league with a .426 average for the Philadelphia Athletics. Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers, who also holds the highest career batting average of .366, led the AL in average in 11 (or 12) seasons. Honus Wagner and Gwynn are tied for the second-most titles, with eight apiece in the NL.
Year Winner AVG Team ( s ) Runner-up 2nd AVG
1876 Ross Barnes .429 Chicago White Stockings George Hall .366
1877 Deacon White .387 Boston Red Caps John Cassidy .378
1878 Paul Hines .358 Providence Grays Abner Dalrymple .354
1879 Paul Hines .357 Providence Grays Jim O'Rourke .348
1880 George Gore .360 Chicago White Stockings Cap Anson .337
1881 Cap Anson .399 Chicago White Stockings Martin Powell .338
1882 Dan Brouthers .368 Buffalo Bisons Cap Anson .362
1883 Dan Brouthers .374 Buffalo Bisons Roger Connor .357
1884 King Kelly .354 Chicago White Stockings Jim O'Rourke .347
1885 Roger Connor .371 New York Giants Dan Brouthers .359
1886 King Kelly .388 Chicago White Stockings Cap Anson .371
1887 Sam Thompson .372 Detroit Wolverines Cap Anson .347
1888 Cap Anson .344 Chicago White Stockings Jimmy Ryan .332
1889 Dan Brouthers .373 Boston Beaneaters Jack Glasscock .352
1890 Jack Glasscock .336 New York Giants Billy Hamilton .325
1891 Billy Hamilton .340 Philadelphia Phillies Bug Holliday .319
1892 Dan Brouthers .335 Brooklyn Grooms Billy Hamilton .330
1893 Billy Hamilton .380 Philadelphia Phillies Sam Thompson .370
1894 Hugh Duffy .440 Boston Beaneaters Tuck Turner .418
1895 Jesse Burkett .405 Cleveland Spiders Ed Delahanty .404