The legendary Huelva bullfighter of the 1950s Miguel Báez Espuny "Litri" has died today in Madrid, at the age of 91, as EFE has been able to confirm in sources close to the family.
Litri had suffered for years from a long illness that kept him away from public life, so he was also unable to attend the second wedding of his son, also a bullfighter with the same nickname Miguel Báez Spínola, with the art historian Casilda Ybarra, held last day 14 in Seville.
Although born in the Valencian town of Gandía, on October 5, 1930, the deceased right-hander grew up and became a bullfighter in Huelva, from where he was launched as a novillero to form with Julio Aparicio one of the most famous pairs of bullfighters in history. .
After taking the alternative on October 12, 1950 in the Plaza de Valencia, also together with Aparicio, Litri was one of the most popular figures of bullfighting in the 50s, with great regularity in triumph practicing a "tremendista" bullfighting line ".
In a career plagued with comings and goings, he performed for the last time dressed in lights in September 1987, when he gave his son the alternative in the Roman amphitheater of Nimes, the same day that Paco Camino also did it with his eldest son Rafael.
Litri's mortal remains will be veiled this Wednesday at the San Isidro funeral home in Madrid.
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