ronald dion desantis was born on september 14, 1978 in jacksonville, florida to karen rogers desantis and ronald d. desantis sr. he is of italian and english descent and his great great-grandparents migrated to the united states during the early 1900's between the late 1910's. during his childhood he late grew up in dunedin and orlando, florida and he was a member of little leauge, as he was a baseball player during his youth for the 1991 little leauge world series in williamsport, pennsylvania.